Articles
This section lists articles by project experts and other contributors on the subject of anti-religious hate speech.
How Does the QAnon Conspiracy Theory Spread Online?
Evidence for the escalation of QAnon comes from the messages left by some its supporters, which have been written in languages other than English.
Does Online Hate End With Parler?
The complicity of social media companies that enabled Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric is dangerous.
Facebook Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with Launch of Education Campaign
“Transmitting the history of the Holocaust is key to combatting denial and conspiracy theories today” – emphasises Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General. Launched on Holocaust Remembrance Day this year, Facebook initiative to connect people to credible information about the Holocaust goes some way towards this goal.
Plus Ça Change Plus C’Est la Même Chose: Discrimination and the Editors’ Code
In response to its latest public consultation the Editors’ Code Committee is reluctant to concede any more changes despite campaigning efforts by charities including MDI.
WHY DE-PLATFORMING DAVID ICKE NEEDS TO HAPPEN NOW
Conspiracy theories often go hand-in-hand with hate speech against marginalised groups, as we have covered many times in the Get The Trolls Out! project. The most recent example of this is David Icke, who has become well-known in the mainstream in recent weeks by utilizing the COVID-19 pandemic to spread disinformation; however, antisemitism has been at the core of Icke’s work for a very long time.
RELIGIOUS HATRED DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
The current climate of fear and anxiety surrounding the coronavirus pandemic is acting as fertile ground for the dissemination of conspiracy theories and discriminatory discourses. Since the outbreak in Wuhan, Chinese people, and people of East Asian appearance more broadly, have been attacked and abused because they were seen as carriers of the virus. But as the infections spread across the world, specific religious and ethnic groups have also been targeted. These attacks range from shaming Muslims for allegedly failing to adhere to lockdown measures, to global conspiracies about Jewish people, drawing on historical prejudices and racist perceptions.
THE EYE AS WITNESS
We all have seen images of Nazi ghettos and concentration camps. But through whose eyes are we seeing this past?
12 WORST TROLLS OF THE YEAR
2019 unfortunately took off where the last year left us, with many examples of individuals and entire media outlets spreading anti-religious and racist views. We’ve created a countdown of some of the worst perpetrators of the year.
ANTISEMITIC HATE AGAINST SOROS AS A COMMON DENOMINATOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL RIGHT
Billionaire and philanthropist George Soros is not only attacked by nationalists in Eastern Europe: Soros is said to be the head of a world-wide conspiracy for the oppression of the West by means of the presumed ethnic replacement of local populations.