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Spain to Launch Tool that Will Monitor Hate Speech on Social Media
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Spain to launch tool to monitor hate on social media, PM Sanchez says
MADRID - Spain will launch a tool to measure hate speech on digital platforms as part of a broader strategy to increase oversight of social media companies, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday.
The socialist leader also reiterated that "technology is power" and considered that "the digital environment cannot be a space without rules".
Pedro Sánchez reinforces the measures against hatred and disinformation on social networks, one of the central issues of this legislature in which the president tries to launch the ban on access to children under 16 years of age, in line with what Australia has done. The president has today announced a new system to combat this hatred, with a new mechanism that will be called HODIO (the Footprint of Hate and Polarization, as explained by the gov…
The president of the government presents (H)odio, which promises to be "transparent and rigorous" and that will allow sanctioning the owners of social networks. More information: hate crimes for ideological reasons on social networks grew by 71% in the last year
"If hatred is already dangerous, social networks have turned it into a weapon of mass polarization that ends up leaking into everyday life," said President Pedro Sánchez: "The world is changing, but the values and principles of Europe should not change" A tool to follow "the footprint" of hate speech on social networks and put a stop to it. That is the announcement made on Wednesday by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, during the i…
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