U.N. expert: world ‘failing’ on hate speech

Governments and businesses including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are doing far too little to prevent violence from online hate speech, a U.N. expert said.

By Arete News - October 21, 2019

A re:publica 2017 panel in Berlin discusses how to combat online hate speech (AN/Gregor Fischer)

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