DRC: political scientists launch Politoscope to fight against online hate speech. This monitoring tool… screens a thousand accounts of Congolese personalities.
Violent speeches are listed in a database. A daily report is then published, because the objective is to clean up political debates after an electoral campaign marked by hate speech, says the initiator of Politoscope. It remains to be seen whether the names of account holders placed under surveillance can be published or whether they must be blurred: the initiators of the project are awaiting the opinion of lawyers.