‘Be hate-free: building hate-free communities in Lithuania’, a project co-funded by the EU Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme
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Partners
- Partners:
- Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights
- Vytautas Magnus University
- European Foundation of Human Rights
- Department of National Minorities of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania.
- The target audience: representatives from various societal groups (youth, teachers, law enforcement officers, state institution employees, etc.)
Description
The project’s objectives were to:
1.
deepen understanding of the phenomenon of hate speech on the internet and develop legal measures to address hate crimes;
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strengthen the ability of vulnerable communities to identify hate speech and report it to the relevant authorities;
3.
increase public awareness of the importance and significance of a tolerant online culture.
Individuals often find it difficult torecognisehate speech themselves, and artificial intelligence needs to be carefully trained to do so. A solution to this problem could be particularly beneficial for news portals seeking to keep their comment sections free from hate speech. The tool developed and refined in this projectutilisestext examples to train artificial intelligence that can then evaluate other cases. It focuses on short texts such as messages, comments and social media posts. Throughout the project, experts in artificial intelligence, technology, linguistics, law and other fields collaborated to develop the tool.
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