Online hate speech and incitement are on the rise around the world, and it’s become more and more clear to me that we need to find new approaches to tackle this massive problem. Monitoring hate speech shared online is not new to me personally -- given the scale and prevalence of this issue in Nigeria, it’s something I’ve been working on for a long time to develop innovative solutions to this new-age problem. Unfortunately, the methods and means I was using in the past were neither quick nor efficient enough for the wild fire of hate speech. I knew there had to be something better.
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