Anti-Roma Hate Surge on Social Media

In 2023, a group of young Roma activists and human rights organisations in Slovakia filed a series of criminal complaints targeting extreme anti‑Roma hate speech on social media platforms. The initiative challenged the normalisation of online antigypsyism and tested the willingness of Slovak law enforcement to prosecute violent hate speech as a crime.

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