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Spain Introduces HODIO To Monitor Social Media Content

The Socialist government of Pedro Sánchez has launched HODIO (Footprint of Hatred and Polarization—which in Spanish also sounds like the word for ‘hate’), an artificial-intelligence-based platform designed to monitor content circulating on social media and measure the reach of what authorities describe as “hate speech.” The initiative, presented in Madrid this Wednesday during the first Forum Against Hate (Foro contra el odio), represents anothe…

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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand (1754-1838), intriguing bishop and diplomat, also prime minister of France, summed it up in a sentence: "Politics is the cultivation of hatred." Pedro Sánchez has just confirmed its validity with the birth of the observatory of "The Footprint of Hatred and Polarization", to which one of the seven hundred advisors of the Moncloa has baptized as "Hodio", with an "H" that hurts only to see her, to draw attention. "Hodi…

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«That is our mission, ladies and gentlemen, to speak more about love and less about hatred». These are the words with which our President of the Government ended yesterday his speech at the I Forum against Hate held this Wednesday in Madrid. There he announced a new tool for the «control of hatred» on social networks that he has called HODIO —the Footprint of Hate and Polarization — with which he only pretends to have an excuse to be able to app…

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Spain's President Pedro Sánchez has announced that he wants to use an AI system to track down hate speech on social media. The program ... The post Spain wants to measure with AI the "footprint of hate" on social media appeared first on Apollo News.

Center

Social networks have been at the centre of the public debate in Spain for weeks.From the Government's proposal to ban access to these platforms for children under 16 years of age to the discussion on the responsibility of big technology for harmful content, the functioning of the digital ecosystem has become an increasingly political and social issue.In this context of growing scrutiny of the role of platforms, the Executive has presented a new …

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The president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Wednesday in the first Forum against Hate the launch of a new tool, baptized as HODIO (of the Footprint of Hate and Polarization, as explained by the government), that will monitor the dissemination of contents that promote hate on platforms. Both the very nature of the system, that will be responsible for monitoring something, the hatred, that cannot be measured objectively, like th…

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