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Coronavirus: website launched in US to track pandemic-inspired hate speech and abuse online | South China Morning Post

The Anti-Semitism Accountability Project (ASAP), a US-based Jewish advocacy organisation, has launched an incident reporting portal to track online hate speech and xenophobia targeting Jews, Asians and other minority communities in the US during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The move comes amid reports that white supremacists have mobilised online to blame Jews for the coronavirus, and amid an escalation of verbal and physical attacks against Asian-Americans because of the pandemic.

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Source: Coronavirus: website launched in US to track pandemic-inspired hate speech and abuse online | South China Morning Post