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Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga has announced that she will be starting an investigation into censorship of political views on social media in Hungary and across Europe.

Social media companies and Internet service providers must censor “hate speech,” said Democrat presidential candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke on Wednesday while speaking with MSNBC. He linked President Donald Trump to “hate speech” — including descriptions of the president as a “racist” and “white supremacist” — in the same interview and subsequent statements.

The U.S. Catholic bishops issued a statement Thursday calling all Americans to a “change in language and rhetoric,” insisting that hateful language “can become the motivation for some to commit acts of violence.”

YouTube blacklisted Killing Europe, a documentary about Islam and mass immigration in Europe that had previously been hosted on the platform for over a year, just days after Amazon Prime made the same decision.

PARIS (AP) – French lawmakers have approved a measure that is intended to force search engines and social networks to take hate speech off the internet.

Speaking at Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority event on Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) recalled when a Twitter executive couldn’t answer whether a tweet with Mother Theresa’s quote “Abortion is profoundly anti-woman” was considered hate speech by the social media platform.

A 52-year-old Swedish man has been convicted for “hate” comments posted in a social media group, despite the comments having been written by other people.

“What a lot of these powerful voices on the LGBT left want to do is they want to create this authoritarian woke empire to where they make the rules about what is free speech and what is hate speech,” conservative commentator Rob Smith told Breitbart News’ Alana Mastrangelo on Thursday at Turning Point USA’s 2019 Young Women’s Leadership Summit.

The University of Washington Tacoma is working on a tool that will seek out “hate speech” on social media.

The Radiance Foundation has sent out a disturbing report regarding Big Tech censorship that targets Christians and social conservatives, claiming that Big Tech’s endgame is disruption of the democratic process.

Facebook has shut down 23 major populist Italian pages with 2.5 million followers just two weeks before the European elections.

The Swedish Defence Research Institute (FOI), along with other partners, have created a “hate speech robot” online and are asking members of the public to give it examples to form an algorithm to fight against “hate” on social media platforms.

National pro-life leaders celebrated a Senate hearing Wednesday on censorship by tech giants of pro-life voices and films.

YouTube shut down the ability for users to post comments on the livestream video of Tuesday’s congressional hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism, after users began flooding the live comment section with remarks it considers “hate speech.”

CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour asked fired FBI Director James Comey in an interview broadcasted Tuesday whether the bureau should have shut down the “lock her up” chant — a reference to the alleged crimes of failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — because it falls under the category of “hate speech.”

A 91-year-old Swedish man has been convicted of hate speech in the municipality of Bromölla after making disparaging comments about Islam and Muslims online.

Eventbrite banned the conservative organization, ACT for America, on Thursday over supposed violations of the platform’s “Community Guidelines.” The ban arrives just one week after a former Nancy Pelosi intern wrote a hit piece on the organization, relying on information provided by the discredited SPLC.

North Caroline State University’s student government held a town hall last week to discuss how they can create a better “racial climate” and a “safe learning environment” on campus. At the meeting, members of the Diversity Outreach Department called for amending the Student Code of Conduct to include “repercussions for hate speech.”

A manager at Google cautioned a lower-level employee for questioning the company’s stance on “fake news,” telling him that the company had to stop fake news and “hate speech,” because “that’s how Trump won,” according to a post aired publicly by another Google employee on social media.

Tech giants including Facebook and Google could face huge fines in the U.K. for not removing “toxic”or “harmful” content from their platforms.

French President Emmanuel Macron has floated the idea that those convicted for crimes of hate speech could be banned from social media networks permanently.

A Swedish court has convicted a 70-year-old man of “hate speech” for claiming on social media that Somalis are lazy and don’t work

A Swedish man in his 70s faced a court in the town of Uddevalla this week after social justice activists reported him to the police for labelling Somali migrants “lazy” on social media.

A transgender customer who lashed out at a male GameStop clerk is claiming to be a victim of “hate” for being called “sir” at the store.

Twitter has claimed that it made an “error” when it locked a NewsBusters analyst out of his account on Wednesday after he mocked a drunk Don Lemon on CNN’s New Year’s Eve show. The tweet was called “hateful conduct” by the platform.

Finland’s prime minister has used a New Year’s address to demand citizens refrain from “disseminating hate speech” in the wake of investigations into a foreign rape gang preying on young girls.

Charlie Hebdo journalist Zineb El Rhazoui has received rape and death threats for saying “Islam must submit to criticism”.

Wales’ Cardiff University is reportedly helping police track online “hate speech” with a tool called HateLab.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling for an end to what it calls “speciesism,” or using negative animal remarks.

Facebook has announced the formation of an independent body designed to review and make decisions on content which could affect Facebook’s policies in the future.

A lengthy blog post from Mark Zuckerberg explains how Facebook plans to replace its users’ preferences.

To celebrate “Trans Awareness Week,” abortion giant Planned Parenthood has released seven linguistic tips to help gender-sensitive individuals use terms that will not offend members of the LGBTQ “community.”

France is set to “embed” regulators in Facebook in an effort to examine how effectively the social network tackles “hate speech,” according to a report.

A feature in the Washington Post takes a swipe at the embattled Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), one of the country’s most well-funded “anti-hate” organizations.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) recently spoke to students at Manchester High School in Manchester, Connecticut, criticizing President Donald Trump. 

A video compilation shows the establishment media smearing Trump and his supporters as “Nazis,” “white supremacists,” and “unfit to be human.”