INACH is happy to announce the kick-off meeting of the SafeNet project funded by the EC CERV program. The 24-month project Monitoring and Reporting for Safer Online Environments seeks to apply a comprehensive and intersectional approach in prevention and fight against intolerance, racism and xenophobia online. It joins 21 partners, members of the International network against cyber hate (INACH) and the roof organisation itself The project will focus on two priorities being 1. continuous monitoring and reporting hate speech content to the IT companies and responsible authorities and 2. awareness raising by regular advocacy towards the social media companies, providing consolidated and interpreted data to national authorities as well as running national bi-monthly information campaigns involving different stakeholders, including IT Companies, public authorities, civil society organisations and media. Up to 20 000 of cases will be reported, 10 infosheets in English and 170 in other EU languages
produced, online training run for the monitoring partners, standards for trusted flaggers reached for all partners, advocacy roundtables and closing conference will be organised.