GoKawiilResearcher Mirta Galesic details strategies for countering online hate speech
Mirta Galesic, co-leader of the Collective Minds research group at Vienna's Complexity Science Hub, discusses her research into hate speech and 'counterspeech' responses in an interview with Nature. She notes that hostile posts targeting specific groups have surged around events like migrant crises and elections, citing a 240% rise in anti-South Asian posts on X between January 2024 and June 2026, and points to AI-generated content and bot accounts as factors amplifying divisive rhetoric.