Changes in use of online hate speech after George Floyd’s Murder. (IMAGE)

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Changes in use of online hate speech after George Floyd’s Murder.

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Levels are normalized to 100 a few days before the murder. Online racist hate speech increased by 250% in the days after murder and remained elevated well after these events. Other types of online hate speech, including anti-LGBT, anti-ethnic, gender-related, and anti-Semitism all increased by about 50% or more during these events.

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Lupu et al., CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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