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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.

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A group of students from the Masters in International Relations – Peace, Security and Development Studies at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC) creates the “Respeech” campaign to combat extremism and hate speech. According to Maria João Medeiros, one of the students involved, the campaign “arises after the diagnosis of the main foci of hate speech in Portugal has been made. The objective is, therefore, to attack the causes of this phenomenon using an approach of proximity with the young population and the deconstruction of ideas that motivate discrimination in Portugal”.