The bar chart might be more useful if they weighted the source with its number of users. Facebook isn't 7 times more hateful than Telegram. It has around 3.5 times as many users - but also the two are used very differently. I use Telegram, but only as a free messaging platform for automated alerts.

Then there's the algorithms, which tend to feed you what you engage with and from those connections you've made on it. The exception recently is X which has a very strong political bias and has turned into something that pushes hate very strongly.

They forgot Reddit. Reddit is full of open racism all the time.

Racial slurs and epithets seem to be fine, talk about killing rich people though and you get banned real fast.

TIL 1/3 of people don't have Internet access

I'm firmly in the "not very often" camp, and I think it's because I don't use any of the services mentioned, and I generally avoid the comment sections of most websites.

If you're seeing a lot of hate speech, maybe consider not visiting sites where you see hate speech? Ideally we'd solve the root problem, but I'm worried a lot of people are just feeding the trolls, which creates a positive hate speech feedback loop.

asking such an open ended question doesn't mean much when nowadays, more and more people consider "anything I don't agree with" to be hate speech.

18% in X? Hahahaha

can relate, i am the hate speech

Great list of websites to never visit 👍

I get enough hate-speech during on-line video games. By not using any of those apps, I successfully save myself from multitudes more, while also foregoing any potentially addictive status-seeking site-based-compulsions. I used to play Clash of Clans on my phone because it was a good way to waste a couple minutes while taking a shit. I quit when I began to play too much. I feel like Facebook, twitter, instagram, they're all just sites to waste time on. Which begs the question, why waste time on them at all? Why waste time?

I know not every moment can be spent fruitfully, but when something you do to waste a bit of time in between/during mundane tasks becomes something that now demands attention outside of that, then it's time to stop wasting time on it.

Don't know how the question was phrased, but remember, many people find a comment that disagrees with them or presents a fact they don't like to be "hate".

I guess the people polled don't play multiplayer video games if "other" is only 6%.

33% seems high for "people who are apparently barely ever online"

I'm of the opinion that you should laugh at racists or people who you consider speak "hate" speech online. Someone calls you something, laugh at them. They're pathetic. Words don't hurt lmao. If they were a decent person, they would have never said anything like it. Block them, report them and move on. I have never understood why this is such a big issue and i get called slurs on a daily basis lmao

….so?

Or another way of putting it, 1 in 3 people don't recognize hate speech online.

And that last 1/3rd person is the one actually spewing it.

And the other third is committing or just unaware of it. I encounter it several times a week and virtually no platform cares about most of it. Although I'm pleasantly surprised to almost never see it in my communities on Lemmy.

I love being part of other!

WhatsApp? Isn’t that just like, a messenger? Would think you’d want better friends if you’re encountering hate speech in your group chats haha

This amount actually seems low.

If the survey is reflective of real world percentages. Women are close to half of all people. White men are 31% of the US population. Assuming some of them aren’t straight men or have disabilities, thats a pretty large possibilities of options that someone can fling hate at.

To be clear, straight white men can also experience hate. I don’t want to discredit them. It just seems to me that most of the hate is directed at other identity groups, so I’m using it to make a point.

I experience hate speech any time i see teevee...

They hate working people and yet, nobody cover this hate speech 🤡

2 in 3 people are the ones doing it