Digital interactions between youth and the contexts of the spread of hate speech A field study of a sample of Facebook users

Abstract

Hate speeches have spread through social media targeting the social and moral system, and their power has increased through the exploitation of the youth segment, which has taken them as a platform for digital interactions, so we try in this study to reveal the role of youth interactions via Facebook in the spread of hate speech content and digital violence, and the study used a tool Electronic questionnaire for a sample of 150 male and female students.

The study concluded that there is an active interaction between young people, and that the contents of Facebook have increased their discussions on the topics of hate speech, and they use fake digital identities to interact with these speeches, and the majority of young people interact with speeches of tolerance and stress the role of media education in preventing the spread of The escalation of hate speech and the spread of digital extremism.