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Published: Tuesday, Apr 30th 2024, 09:10
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Memes, photos and caricatures with hate messages are not only shared via social media. As an analysis by the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons and the University of Fribourg shows, hate images are also circulating on platforms such as Amazon and tutti.ch.
It is particularly worrying that journalistic media are also involved in the spread of hate messages, the university wrote in a press release on Tuesday. Despite the mostly critical discussion in the accompanying articles, they contribute to increasing the reach of these messages by showing hate images.
However, the usual suspects were the main source of the hate images that were analyzed for the study entitled "A picture hurts more than 1000 words", led by Franziska Oehmer-Pedrazzi: Around 27 percent of the images circulated on X, 24 percent on Instagram.
Many hate images are criminally relevant
According to the analysis, hate images are shared to the same extent by resource-rich organizations as by individuals. Parties and politicians are also involved in spreading hate messages online.
The researchers found an aggressive tone in around half of the images. Accordingly, 14% of them also contained criminally relevant content such as calls for murder.
The hate was predominantly directed at people because of their nationality (25%) or their gender (21%). Transpersons were particularly affected.
To combat hate images, the researchers recommend extending government measures for platforms such as X or Instagram to small platforms such as classified ad portals. Although these have high usage figures, there are only limited reporting and complaint options. The researchers also recommend the introduction of standards for party communication.
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