AMSTERDAM, Dec. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Every month, players from Ajax Amsterdam’s men’s and women’s teams receive more than 1,500 hate messages on social media. Research shows that 82% of Dutch people are affected by reading hate messages or offensive comments on social media. This means that social media users unknowingly contribute to an environment in which social hate is becoming increasingly normalised. With its #SilenceSocialHate initiative, Ajax wants to start a discussion on the impact of social hate and how we can silence it together. By ensuring that hate messages are reported more often, it increases the pressure on social media platforms to remove the offensive content and improve their response to social hate.

Source: The Bubble December 09, 2023 21:19 UTC