Social media with the most discriminating content in France 2021

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Social media, for which the main objective is the exchange and sharing of content, are the primary carriers of hate messages. In 2020, the number of xenophobic and discriminating posts was over 23 thousand, decreasing to around 15 thousand in 2021. The majority of reports from France came from the content presented on Twitter, with over five thousand hate messages reported in 2021. That number was the highest reported in the previous year, over 10 thousand. Facebook's hateful content also decreased in the year 2021, going from 2887 reports to 1100.

Reports of xenophobic and discriminating comments on the PHAROS* platforms in France in 2018 and 2021, by social media

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Release date

July 2022

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Region

France

Survey time period

2018 to 2021

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* The PHAROS ("Plateforme d’Harmonisation, d’Analyse, de Recoupement et d’Orientation") platform is a platform for Harmonizing, Analysing, Crosschecking and Orientating reports from the Central Office for Combating Related Crime information and communication technologies (OCLCTIC / SDLC). It collects reports of illegal content and behavior on the Internet and their judicial processing. It comprises 28 investigators, supervised by 2 officers.

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