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In 1000 words: winning essays on hate speech
By Jane Whyatt
No one wants to get hate speech, dogpile emoticons, bodyshaming photos or trolls with political paymasters in their news feeds. Journalists have to face them all the time in their daily work. How should we deal with this?
Saskia Solomon
Lorcan Crone
If we ban certain people, certain words or websites, isn’t that censorship? Therefore, that is the big question we put to Europe’s young people, to tell us what they think: should we be free to hate? Our 2017 Young Writers contest attracted over 70 entries in five languages from all over Europe. And now our jury of…