We asked our experts to define what the European Observatory of Online Hate is to them. A tool. A platform. A collaboration between different organisations working together to combat online hate. With increasing difficulties in combating hate, disinformation and polarisation in society, the tool that the EOOH is building is essential in understanding the European online landscape.

As Facebook has become too big to be seriously, and financially, hurt by the revelations, governmental legislation will be needed to regulate social media companies to curb online disinformation, hate speech, and preying on vulnerable groups, like teenagers with depression.

It’s Monday morning, July 12th, and England didn’t manage to ‘bring football home’. The three England players, Saka, Sancho, and Rashford, who saw their penalties either stopped by Italian goalkeeper Donnarumma, or hit the goalpost, were aggressively targeted on social media with racist comments.

How did Eriksen’s collapse at EURO 2020 push anti-vax narratives into the mainstream?

In Observing Hate we give you updates on the world of online hate. Today’s episode discusses fruitful strategies, often used by propagandists and conspiracy theorists.