Sentence examples for counter speech from inspiring English sources

The report concluded counter speech did little to diminish the spreading of racist views.

He argued that it would be better to counter speech with more speech, rather than restricting it by law.

Early research by tech companies into the effectiveness of "counter speech" in challenging and diminishing hate speech has brought disappointing results.

Five months ago Demos carried out pilot research for Facebook on how community-driven counter speech might play a critical role in shutting out hate speech in Europe by analysing interactions with populist rightwing pages.

Maybe it was also his one and only attempt to see whether an exotic brand could work for him politically.Sure enough, his party frenemy Rainer Brüderle, now the FDP's top candidate in the coming election, gave a counter speech in which he, Mr Brüderle, was not as strong as bamboo but rather as strong... as an oak.

The sexualised and threatening abuse of Fernandes began when she challenged the racism of a member of the far right on social media – an attempt at so-called counter speech, which tech companies are encouraging across the globe to create a grassroots movement against hate speech on their platforms.

We counter bad speech with better speech, and to sanction speech only in extreme cases.

I'm a real believer in counter-speech when it comes to crazy stuff we don't like".

"Counter-speech to the speech that is perpetuating hate we think by far is the best answer".

It concluded: "Counter-speech pages are not as active as populist rightwing pages … If they wish to reach more people, France and Italian counter-speech pages should produce more content.

On Monday, the Guardian reported an initiative by Google, Facebook and Twitter to foster a global grassroots counter-speech movement.