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After the Commission for Equality and Against Racial Discrimination (CICDR) registered a significant increase in complaints and referred several cases to the Portuguese public prosecution, the Government announces its intention to monitor occurrences of hate speech on the internet. According to the Minister of State and Presidency, Mariana Vieira da Silva, the objective is to understand how this discourse is propagated on online platforms, the messages it contains, identify authors, monitor complaints processes, among other aspects.