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Hate Speech and Covert Discrimination on Social Media: Monitoring the Facebook Pages of Extreme-Right Political Parties in Spain

@article{BenDavid2016HateSA,
  title={Hate Speech and Covert Discrimination on Social Media: Monitoring the Facebook Pages of Extreme-Right Political Parties in Spain},
  author={A. Ben-David and Ariadna Matamoros Fern{\'a}ndez},
  journal={International Journal of Communication},
  year={2016},
  volume={10},
  pages={27}
}

A. Ben-David, Ariadna Matamoros Fernández

Published 2016

Political Science, Sociology

International Journal of Communication

This study considers the ways that overt hate speech and covert discriminatory practices circulate on Facebook despite its official policy that prohibits hate speech. We argue that hate speech and discriminatory practices are not only explained by users’ motivations and actions, but are also formed by a network of ties between the platform’s policy, its technological affordances, and the communicative acts of its users. Our argument is supported with longitudinal multimodal content and network… CONTINUE READING

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