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What's happening online as the European Commission tries to crack down on hate speech?
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What's happening online as the European Commission tries to crack down on hate speech?
As a surge of hate speech in EU countries like Portugal and Sweden is raising concerns, how is the online sphere behaving?
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What's happening online as the European Commission tries to crack down on hate speech?
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The European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance has called on Sweden,
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Portugal, Croatia and Latvia to take stronger action against hate speech.
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This comes as an average medium level of online toxicity has been recorded since the beginning
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of 2025, according to the European Observatory of Online Hate.
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In April, the observatory recorded the highest level of toxicity seen so far this year at 0.22 out of 1.
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In May, antisemitism maintained the highest average toxicity score at 0.34.
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After antisemitic comments, anti-Roma content was the second most common kind of online hate speech.
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A score of 0.30 showed how this community continues to be targeted by online users.
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Anti-LGBTQ+, and anti-Muslim narratives both register significant toxicity levels at 0.29 and 0.28 respectively,
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while anti-refugee content scored 0.23.
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Although sexist content recorded the lowest average toxicity score at 0.19,
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these insults still represented the highest volume of toxic posts,
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with the observatory noting almost 3 million examples.
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This figure is over three times the number of anti-Roma posts and more than double that of posts targeting LGBTQ plus individuals.
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