by WorldTribune Staff, October 21, 2026 — Real World News
A European Union-funded project called HATEDEMICS, which began on April 1, 2024, stated its primary objective was to combat online hate speech, disinformation, polarization, and conspiracy theories using advanced AI-based technologies.
Critics say HATEDEMICS not only turbocharged censorship but seeks to redirect dialogues.
The project, funded under the EU's Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) program, sought to:
• Monitor, detect, and record hate speech and disinformation on social media.
• Estimate "HATEDEMICS risk" by calculating exposure to potential hate and misinformation.
• Create dialogue-based, human-in-the-loop counter-narratives.
• Automatically assess behavioral changes determined by the counter-narrative intervention.
The AI platform would then provide non-governmental organizations (NGOs), fact-checkers, and public authorities across EU Member States with targeted, automated tools to deploy and measure the effectiveness of digital counter-narrative campaigns.
Ultimately, however, it was humans with an agenda who were controlling the AI's final responses, investigative journalist Natalie Winters reported on Oct. 20.
According to project materials obtained by Winters, the EU-funded HATEDEMICS platform has already "processed more than ten million social media messages."
Winters noted:
"Now the institution coordinating that work is developing a successor that plans
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