A Comparative Study on Hate Speech and Incitement to Violence in Syrian Media- Second Monitoring Round 2020

The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression launched the second round of media monitoring within the project “Monitoring hate speech and incitement to violence in the Syrian media” with the support of UNESCO and the European Endowment for Democracy (EED), in the period between February and November 2020, aiming at measuring the types and extent of hate speech in media content, and tracking and recording any changes in comparison to the results of the previous monitoring round conducted in 2019 by a pool of Syrian monitors, consisting of professional journalists trained on media monitoring methods in the first phase of the project