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The Spanish academics say their monitoring tool could be used in the European Parliament too (Photo: europarl.europa.eu)

Barcelona university invents tool for measuring hate speech

A team of academics in Catalonia have come up with a monitoring tool for xenophobic speech, something they say could be used at EU level too.

Ricard Zapata-Barrero, professor of political and social sciences at Barcelona's Universitat de Pompeu Fabre, and his colleague Gema Rubio Carbonero thought up the tool as a way for political parties to assess their own speeches and for civil society to scrutinise politicians.

"Xenophobia is a construct," says Zapata.

He explains that ...

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The Spanish academics say their monitoring tool could be used in the European Parliament too (Photo: europarl.europa.eu)

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