28/11/2018 10:59
Armenian Ombudsman expresses concern over growth of hate speech, offences during election campaign
Armenian Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan considers the words addressed to each other during the campaign rather worrying.
“Unfortunately, we have registered growth of offense, hate speech. I am really concerned with it,” Tatoyan said today, adding that such behavior during campaign affects freedom of speech too.
He also mentioned the circumstance of widely spread fakes (fake users) in Facebook who spread offences and hate in the social networks.
“The enhancement of the institute of fake users is rather worrying. Our observations have shown that intolerance, hate speech, offences are mainly being spread by fake users,” Tatoyan said, adding that they have created an independent task group and carry out every day monitoring.