hate speech

noun

: speech expressing hatred of a particular group of people
Hate speech is not allowed at school.

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The company cut employees who worked on election integrity and countering misinformation, loosened rules around hate speech, and reinstated the accounts of extremists who had been banned. Joe Murphy, NBC news, 6 June 2025 And when hate speech is excused or explained away, Jewish lives are put in mortal danger. Laurence Milstein, Sun Sentinel, 4 June 2025 The internal documents seen by NPR show that employees were notified about the revamping not long after the company ended its fact-checking program and loosened its hate speech policies. Shannon Bond, NPR, 31 May 2025 Workers in Kenya earned abysmal wages to filter out violence and hate speech from OpenAI’s technologies, including ChatGPT. Karen Hao, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for hate speech

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“Hate speech.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hate%20speech. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.

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hate speech

noun
: speech that is intended to insult, offend, or intimidate a person because of some trait (as race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability)
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