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About
Hatebase collected hate-speech terms across languages and regions, with software that scanned the web several times an hour and flagged possible matches to organisations monitoring for violence. It began as a genocide-prevention tool: a joint project of the Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention and the Dark Data Project. By 2019 it held a lexicon of roughly 3,600 terms. Its operators retired it in 2022 and incubated a successor, The Weaponized Word, with about twice the coverage. Co-founder Timothy Quinn spoke at TechTO in December 2019.
Backers
Non-commercial project of the Sentinel Project and the Dark Data Project
Quick answers
What was Hatebase?
An online repository of structured, multilingual, usage-based hate speech, built in Toronto so humanitarian organisations and platforms could detect early signals of targeted violence.
Is Hatebase still running?
No. The Dark Data Project and the Sentinel Project retired it in 2022 after roughly a decade, and incubated a successor platform called The Weaponized Word.
Who was behind Hatebase?
It was a joint project of the Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention and the Dark Data Project. Timothy Quinn was a co-founder and principal.