SELMA

“Hacking Hate” Hackathon

BERLIN 5-6 Dec 2018

GREEK TEAM
Apostolidis Dimos, Valkani Georgia, Golatsis
Chris, Foutsitzi Evi
EPAS
Students from the EPAS team used European Union’s
benefits and participate in the SELMA “HACKING HATE”
HACKATHON competition winning the 3rd place.
 Who are we?
● We are a group of students
from the High School of
Tychero, Greece.

● Tychero is a village of about

2.500 residents,
at the entrance of Europe.
 Who are we?
● We might be only 30 students in
our school but we are actually
really active and into new things
and ideas.
Tackle Online Hate
Framework Main idea
● Young people encounter Fight the root causes
hate speech incidents through:
as a part of their daily ● education and
digital life.
● awareness of young
● This subject is not
people
sufficiently covered in
many schools.
Tackle Online Hate
Goals
● An app for smart
Make youth… phones.
● think deeply, ● As an appealing way
HOW?
● get informed to approach young
people who...
● motivate them to take
action. ● prefer mobile devices
rather than desktop
computers or even
books.
 Let’s think...
Does the person or the
Do we have the right to Can all offensive media play a role on the
express ourselves even if expressions incite hatred impact that words could
our words can harm or violence? have?
people or cause crimes?

Are there borders

between hate and free Is there a light
speech? and heavy edition
of hate speech?
 HOMEPAGE
● There will be 6 components/
sections displayed on the
first screen, that can be
chosen by the user.
 1. HATE OR FREE SPEECH?

● User reads some

sentences and has to
decide whether those
words can be
considered as a hate or
free speech.
● An assessment icons
scale will be displayed
at the bottom of the
screen.
2. HUMAN RIGHTS

● An activity based on human

rights.
● Real hate speech examples
will be displayed and user
has to indicate, from a list
given, which human right is
being violated.
● List: Right to Life/ right to
respect for private and family
life/etc.
3.FIND THE VICTIM
● Bias and stereotypes
motivate hate speech.
● User reads an expression
that can be considered as
bias and chooses, from a list,
the group of people that are
targeted.
For example:
● “They are greedy, nit-picky,
stingy misers. They even
killed Jesus!”
 4. TAKE ACTION-TIPS
Tips
✓ Reporting to the service provider
● What should we do when ✓ Liking or sharing someone else’s
we face hate speech positive post
online? Should we ignore ✓ Replying to negative posts with
it or take action?
supportive, kind or positive
● Here are some tips... comment about a targeted group
✓ Discussing with a parent, an adult
or a teacher
✓ Blocking the person who wrote it
5. REPORTING TOOLS

In this section, a list of reporting tools will be displayed

on the screen that links to sites like

● www.nohatespeechmovement.org
6. ON LINE PETITION
● In this section, there is going to be a
“supportive” text, in the form of an
online petition, encouraging people to
support anti-hate speech movements.
● The user will be able to sign,
anonymously or not.
● When it comes to younger children,
they will be prompted to ask for their
parents’ contribution.
● Data will be collected and published.
Thank you for your time :)
EPAS: European Parliament
Ambassadors School Program