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Understanding Online Hate Speech as a Motivator and Predictor of Hate Crime

Award Information

Awardee
RAND Corporation
Award #
2016-MU-MU-0009
Funding Category
Competitive
Location

Santa Monica, CA

Awardee County
Los Angeles
Congressional District
33
Status
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2016
Total funding (to date)
$599,269
Original Solicitation
Research on Bias Crimes

Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2016, $599,269)

To address the well-known gaps in understanding hate crime prevalence, the RAND Corporation (US) and its partners RAND Europe (UK) and Cardiff University’s Social Data Science Lab (UK), propose to conduct extensive analyses of online hate speech using Twitter data. ca/ncf
Date Created: September 13, 2016