The Digital Peace Project
Disinformation and violence online have become an unfortunate reality across the globe. A growing body of research shows that women, Indigenous peoples, religious and ethnic minorities, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+* community are targets of vicious online attacks and disinformation campaigns often carried out with malign intent and coordination.
Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes (GAAMAC) partner the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) launched its Digital Peace Project, to uphold the UN Strategy and Plan of Action Against Hate Speech, and contribute to Canadian national efforts to mitigate online hate.
The first step of the project is a public perception survey on Canadian’s perceptions towards content moderation, conducted in partnership with RIWI.
To better engage a wider audience, a series of public roundtables will also be organized, each focusing on a community that is frequently the target of online hate.
Finally, with the help of Areto, MIGS will launch a social media bot to track hateful and inciting accounts and flagging instances of hate speech.
