'Hate speech never ends with just the speech' Experts at a global summit in Istanbul warn of surge in hate crimes and possible genocide that they say begin with unbridled hate speech
Mersiha Smailovic, an activist and founder of Legis, an NGO says hate speech never ends with"just the speech."
"It also goes on to hate crime" and then "it ends with the genocide as we witnessed in the Balkans," she said at the International Strategic Communication Summit 2022 in the Turkish city of Istanbul. He also explained how "misinformation and disinformation" spurred the UN's decision to declare June 18 as the International Day for Countering Hate Speech.
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