Our mission is to foster an inclusive community of volunteers who collaborate on projects that deal with online hate speech.
We hail from various corners of the globe but most of us either studied at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan or The University of the West Indies in Trinidad & Tobago. Most of us have a Computer Science background but we welcome anyone who would like to work with us, regardless of tech experience.
The idea for this was born from research done at the IDEA at National Tsing Hua University. Since then, we've expanded with other volunteers.
Our first major project will be an interactive repository of hate speech data, with a focus on hate speech code words. Overtime we will add more projects and raw datasets to this space.
We believe in equality and fair treatment for all but due to the nature of hate speech, content in the repositories might be explicit and offensive to some. Any such material found here is intended only for illustrative purposes or for use in our projects.
We do not believe that hate speech is defined by vocabulary, but rather by intent. Hateful language can come with or without the presence of specific words. Context is important.
Most of our work and processes is open source and available for you to do with as you please. We only ask that you provide attribution or consider contributing to our projects if you find our work useful.
If you have an idea for a project or would like to collaborate, check out the Contributing Guide.