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@article{175617,
        author = {Dr. Abhilasha R},
        title = {Hate speech on social media - consumption, reaction and response},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {11},
        pages = {4092-4099},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=175617},
        abstract = {Hate speech is one of the most discussed topic online and offline. According to the Law Commission of India, hate speech is an attempt to provoke hatred directed towards a group of people who can be identified by their ethnicity, gender, race, or other indicators. The Supreme Court of India has remarked that the only purpose of hate speech is to create enmity for a specific group. With rapid increase in the number of social media users, social media has proven to be a popular medium of communication, resulting in exponential increase of spread of hate speech. 
Despite laws in place, there is still a rise in hate speech and related content on social media. The rising enmity between various groups due to presence and consumption of hate speech-related content threatens the society and has real life consequences.
There is a growing need to analyse the consumption, reaction and response to hate speech and related content on various social media platforms like WhatsApp, YouTube, Meta, Instagram, Snapchat, Telegram and X. Through quantitative analysis, this study will identify consumption pattern of hate speech-related content among various age groups in India and their reaction to it.},
        keywords = {Freedom of expression, Hate speech, India, Reasonable restrictions and Social media},
        month = {April},
        }