Hate speech
Speech that expresses hatred towards individuals or groups
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| March 2025 |
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
Meta updated its hate speech policies to allow 'allegations of mental illness or abnormality' based on sexual orientation or gender identity, which The Advocate criticized as potentially enabling hateful and dehumanizing rhetoric on platforms like Facebook and Instagram.
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| 2024 |
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
Peru passed a short-lived insurance law categorizing transgender identities as a mental disorder, legally classifying transgender status as a mental health condition.
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| September 2024 |
Stochastic terrorism
Springfield, Ohio incident involving false claims about Haitian immigrants, leading to bomb threats. Donald Trump and JD Vance accused of stochastic terrorism for amplifying rumors.
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| July 2024 |
Stochastic terrorism
Southport stabbing followed by rioting, with Nigel Farage accused of inciting violence through inflammatory remarks.
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| June 2024 |
Stochastic terrorism
Two racially motivated stabbing incidents in Oulu, Finland, described as stochastic terrorism preceded by hostile rhetoric from far-right politicians.
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| 2022 |
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
Conservative activists, including Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok, began using inflammatory terms like 'grooming', 'groomer', and 'pro-pedophile' against opponents and LGBT people in the context of anti-LGBT legislation, particularly laws restricting discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.
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| 2022 | Marike Bormann of the University of Düsseldorf conducted a study on perceived incivility, including perceptions of #iamhere participants. |
| October 2022 |
Stochastic terrorism
Attack on Paul Pelosi, where the perpetrator sought Nancy Pelosi, described as potential stochastic terrorism.
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| August 2022 |
Stochastic terrorism
Cincinnati FBI field office attack cited as an example of stochastic terrorism.
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| May 2022 |
Stochastic terrorism
Buffalo shooting cited as an example of stochastic terrorism.
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| 2021 | An Anti-Defamation League study reveals that 33% of Americans were targets of identity-based harassment in the preceding year. |
| July 2021 | Facebook published a 'Courage Against Hate' case study describing I Am Here International as 'the world's largest, citizen-driven, anti-online-hate movement'. |
| June 2021 | A European Union study listed I Am Here as one of seven successful initiatives against disinformation targeting ethnic, racial, and cultural minorities. |
| April 2021 | David Bromell published a paper discussing I Am Here as an example of 'high-threshold online civic intervention', actively engaging with those posting hate speech. |
| March 2021 | A research paper in New Media & Society examined I Am Here's organizational strategies on social media, highlighting the group's need to constantly reinvent itself. |
| February 2021 | The World Health Organization hosted a webinar featuring Francesca Ulivi and Xavier Brandao, discussing the infodemic problems related to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 |
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
Israeli rabbi Meir Mazuz argued that the COVID-19 pandemic was divine retribution for same-sex activity and pride parades.
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| 2020 |
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
The Polish education minister defended an official who warned about an 'LGBT virus' threatening Polish schools, claiming it was more dangerous than COVID-19.
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| 2020 |
Stochastic terrorism
Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot described as an example of stochastic terrorism.
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| 2020 | Anthropologist Cathy Buerger published the first quantitative study on countering online hate speech, calling #jagärhär the 'best-organized collective effort to respond directly to hatred online'. |
| 2020 |
Russia and Black Lives Matter
Russian interference in the US elections continued, with the Internet Research Agency outsourcing to troll farms in Ghana and Nigeria to create race-baiting content targeting US audiences on social media platforms.
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| August 16 2020 |
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
At the 'Stop LGBT aggression' rally, Krzysztof Bosak claimed that even irreligious people oppose 'LGBT ideology' because it is 'contrary to common sense and rational thinking'.
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| August 1 2020 |
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
Ultranationalist Robert Winnicki compared LGBT to communist and Nazi ideology during the Warsaw Uprising anniversary, stating that the 'rainbow plague' would also pass.
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| July 2020 |
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
The European Union announced it would not provide funding to six Polish towns that declared themselves 'LGBT-free zones', after nearly 100 local governments declared themselves 'free from LGBT ideology'.
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| June 2020 |
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
Polish President Andrzej Duda drew international attention by calling LGBTQ an 'ideology' and a form of 'Neo-Bolshevism', promising to ban its propagation in public institutions.
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| June 2020 |
Russia and Black Lives Matter
Russian state-controlled media began amplifying divisive narratives around Black Lives Matter protests, seeking to increase social polarization in the United States.
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| May 25 2020 |
Russia and Black Lives Matter
Death of George Floyd sparked widespread Black Lives Matter protests, which became a focus of Russian online disinformation campaigns.
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| February 14 2020 | Iamhere movement collaborated with Stop Funding Hate campaign on a Valentine's Day action to combat hatred and extremism, inspired by the #ExtinguishHate campaign started by a hero who fought off a terrorist during the 2019 London Bridge stabbing. |
| 2019 |
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
Zimbabwean presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa referenced 'Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve' in an interview expressing anti-gay sentiments.
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| 2019 | German Iamhere group (#ichbienhier) won the Deutschen Engagementpreis in the 'Demokratie stärken' (Strengthening Democracy) category. |
| 2019 | Reference to London Bridge stabbing incident that inspired the #ExtinguishHate campaign, which subsequently influenced the Iamhere movement's collaboration with Stop Funding Hate. |
| 2019 | The Soufan Center highlighted I Am Here in a report on the worldwide rise of white supremacist movements, identifying the group as an important counter-speech initiative. |
| August 1 2019 |
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
Polish Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski called 'LGBT ideology' a 'rainbow plague' during a sermon, comparing it to the 'Red Plague' of Communism.
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| June 2019 | Fox News published a piece comparing the group's effectiveness in combating hate speech on Facebook with the platform's own mechanisms. |
| 2018 |
Stochastic terrorism
Mail bombings attributed to stochastic terrorism indirectly inspired by Donald Trump's rhetoric.
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| 2018 | During a campaign relating to Swedish lawyer of the year Linnéa Claeson, the group successfully shifted the tone of online conversation, leading Aftonbladet newspaper to begin moderating comments on its posts. |
| 2017 |
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
Conservative Islamic politicians in Malaysia and Indonesia denounced 'LGBT ideology'.
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| 2017 |
Stochastic terrorism
Congressional baseball shooting described as an act of stochastic terrorism.
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| 2017 | Deutsche Welle published an article about the German #ichbinhier group, noting its success in challenging right-wing extremists on Facebook. |
| 2017 | Mina Dennert won the Anna Lindh Prize for supporting just and democratic ideals in the Iamhere social movement. |
| 2017 | #jagärhär (Swedish Iamhere group) won the 'Integration of the Year' award at the Faktum gala. |
| 2017 | The Dusseldorf Institute for Internet and Democracy conducted a study on the German group's actions across 167 news articles, finding they increased the level of rational and civil online discussion. |
| 2017 | German #ichbienhier group won the Grimme Online Award for their social media activism. |
| December 2017 | German research reveals that coordinated right-wing extremist online hate campaigns had begun to triple in frequency from this point until mid-2019, highlighting the growing need for movements like #iamhere to counter online hate speech. |
| 2016 |
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
Anti-LGBT rhetoric increased in Indonesia through the Twitter hashtag #TolakLGBT (#RejectLGBT), portraying LGBT identity as a disease.
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| 2016 |
Stochastic terrorism
Murder of Jo Cox MP by white supremacist Thomas Mair ahead of the Brexit referendum, characterized as stochastic terrorism due to mainstream political discourse around anti-immigrant sentiments.
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| 2016 |
Russia and Black Lives Matter
Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) began spreading disinformation and inflammatory content related to racial tensions in the United States, attempting to exploit social divisions around race.
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| 2016 |
Russia and Black Lives Matter
Russian operatives created hundreds of fake social media personas to influence discourse around Black Lives Matter, simultaneously promoting both pro-BLM and anti-BLM narratives during the US presidential election.
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| 2016 |
Russia and Black Lives Matter
Russian Internet Research Agency simultaneously organized opposing protests in New York City - one supporting Black Lives Matter and another opposing the movement - as part of a deliberate interference strategy.
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