During his participation in the strategic forum for civil society organizations held at the initiative of the (Strategic Foundation for Public Policy) and under the auspices of the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, Dr. Saad Salloum, the general coordinator of Masarat Foundation, reviewed the rates, forms, and patterns of hate speech through the specific numbers of the monitoring and confronting hate speech center in the foundation.
Salloum revealed that these rates have increased in recent years at alarming levels, along with a rising rate of false and misleading news as well.
In his analysis, Salloum pointed out the shift of hate speech from random expressions to organized discourse, with increasing rates in favor of organized speech, which requires raising the level of methodology and the effectiveness of the necessary mechanisms to confront it.
On another note, Salum pointed to the positive aspects related to the rise of societal immunity in Iraqi society against these destructive speeches through the increased level of public confrontation of such speech. This is credited to the work of specialized institutions like the hate speech confrontation center in Masarat Foundation and the training they conducted for several generations of activists and journalists, in addition to the work of pages that expose fake and misleading news.
