Faced with a rising tide of online hate and advertiser boycotts, Facebook Canada will announce today that it is teaming up with Ontario Tech University's Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism to create what it calls the Global Network Against Hate. The network, which is to receive $500,000 from Facebook over five years, is being tasked with spotting emerging trends in online extremism and developing strategies, policies and tools to counter them. "I think we're going to see an escalation rather than a decrease in this sort of activity, online and offline," Perry said. Experts like Barbara Perry, a criminologist specializing in hate crime at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, say online hate in Canada has been rising. Kevin Chan, head of public policy for Facebook Canada, said the partnership with Ontario Tech has been in the works for a while.

Source: CBC News July 28, 2020 07:52 UTC