How to Use hate speech in a Sentence

hate speech

noun
  • Questionnaires may have been edited for spelling, grammar, length and, in some instances, to remove hate speech and offensive language.
    Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The numbers underscore the concerns that advertisers have expressed about the site since Musk’s takeover—a growing amount of hate speech and abusive content.
    Bychris Morris, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2024
  • An Intel spokeswoman said the company has a longstanding culture of diversity and inclusion and does not tolerate hate speech of any kind, pointing to its code of conduct.
    Alexandra Ferreyros, Cnbc Intern, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Many users have worried that could mean a rise in hate speech.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 24 July 2023
  • Would that put a stop to hate speech at public meetings?
    Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 1 Mar. 2024
  • If someone in power can claim, ‘Well, that’s hate speech.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024
  • Twitter has also seen a spike in hate speech since Musk bought the platform last year.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 6 July 2023
  • Since the pandemic, anti-Asian hate speech also has been on the rise.
    John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2023
  • My Ads, a watchdog group for ways in which the ad industry supports hate speech.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Many students say hate speech and racial slurs regularly go unchecked at the school.
    Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Yes, classifying calls for the genocide of Jews as hate speech should have been a straight-forward task.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • What is acceptable to say and what crosses into hate speech?
    Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Hanukkah reminds us Jews will not sit silently on the sidelines while hate crimes and hate speech against us skyrocket.
    TIME, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Read how the platform is expanding its hate speech policies.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 10 July 2024
  • And Twitter is under scrutiny for a rise in hate speech and its treatment of workers.
    Kate Conger, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • His ownership, as well as rapid changes at the company, has concerned some users who fear the rise of hate speech on the site as safety guardrails are rolled back.
    Rachel Pannett and Rachel Lerman, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The changes come as Meta fights a flood of hate speech and misinformation surrounding the conflict.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Growing attacks in schools, linked to online hate speech, have added urgency to the issue.
    Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2023
  • But the boom in hate speech and harassment since Musk took over has permanently altered the tone of Twitter, many users say.
    Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • As leaders attempt to quash hate speech and promote unity, some students and teachers say they have been censored in the process.
    Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2023
  • This campus can and will discipline hate speech not protected by the First Amendment.
    Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2023
  • To the north, a federal judge recently struck down a New York law that regulates online hate speech.
    WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
  • In that case, the question is whether the phrase qualifies as hate speech because some people use it as a call for the elimination of Israel.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 9 July 2024
  • And the Olathe school board voted to make racial harassment and hate speech a more serious offense under the student code of conduct.
    Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Each game has a code of conduct or rules that prohibit offensive language or hate speech.
    Khadijah Khogeer, NBC News, 24 July 2023
  • This plan should include strategies for handling hate speech, trolling, and other forms of harassment.
    Red Rodriguez, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
  • And one of my deep concerns is the alarming increase of Islamophobia and antisemitism and other forms of hate speech since the war here at home.
    Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The First Amendment protects the hate speech and extremist writings that often precede a mass shooting.
    Marcela Rodrigues, Dallas News, 14 May 2023
  • Meta added that both Biden and Trump would still be subject to the company’s rules against spreading hate speech or inciting violence.
    Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • Brazil’s strict internet regulations are intended to limit the spread of hate speech, incitements to violence, and political misinformation or content harmful to democratic institutions online.
    Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2024

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