LGL Representative Participated in a Meeting on monitoring hate speech comments on social media in Paris

On December 10th, 2019, Eglė Kuktoraitė, Communications Manager at the National LGBT rights organization LGL, participated in a meeting on monitoring hate speech comments on social media in Paris (France), attended by the representatives of the European Commission, social networks and European NGOs.

During the meeting, representatives from several European non-governmental organizations currently monitoring hate speech on social media discussed problems that have arisen in their efforts to combat this hate speech.

Google+, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Youtube representatives who attended the meeting underlined the importance of cooperation with non-governmental organizations. NGO experts who participated in the initiative shared difficulties that they had encountered when reporting instances of hate speech on social media. It is believed that further cooperation between social networks, governments and NGO experts will be integral to challenging online hate speech.