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Letting hate flourish: YouTube and Koo’s lax response to the reporting of hate speech against women in India and the US

A joint investigation by Global Witness and IFF shows that YouTube and microblogging site Koo are failing to act on misogynistic hate speech reported on their platforms in India and the US, endangering women and minoritised groups, and enabling a toxic information ecosystem in a critical election year.

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