#YoRespeto: the project of FAD and Maldita.es against hate speech to train 35,000 youths

The initiative aims to reach, in 30 months, more than 35,000 teenagers and young people between the ages of 14 and 29 through the app and more than 2 million through an awareness campaign on social networks. The app will be developed by Maldita.es and will include examples of disinforming hate speech that young people face every day on social networks. Our app will gamify the identification of hoaxes and fact-checking processes to train users in skills that will increase their sensitivity to hate speech and how not to help spread it.

In addition, research will be carried out to analyze the risk and exposure of young Spaniards to hate speech, their attitudes towards hate speech on the Internet, how they perceive it, in which spaces it develops and the topics most prone to intolerance, which will be carried out by FAD.

One of the two projects selected in Spain for the Google.org Impact Challenge

The project is made possible thanks to the support of Google.org (Google’s philanthropic organization) and its Impact Challenge on Safety, which supports organizations across Europe working to combat hate and extremism in their communities and help young people and their families become safer and more informed digital citizens.

Selected from 900 projects submitted across Europe, FAD and Maldita.es‘s project is one of two to be implemented in Spain as part of the Impact Challenge. The other is a project against bullying in the classroom by the Educacuentos Foundation. A total of 29 projects were selected across Europe.