@article{ahmad2023impact,
  title = {The Impact of social media on UK Hate Crime:  A Brief Study},
  author = {Nehaluddin AHMAD and Gary LILIENTHAL and Arman bin ASMAD},
  year = 2023,
  url = {https://ibimapublishing.com/articles/JISNVC/2023/989773/},
  journal = {Journal of Internet Social Networking and Virtual Communities},
  volume = 2023,
  pages = 7,
  doi = 10.5171/2023.989773,
  abstract = {The study focuses on how the legal system exploited the old discrimination offenses to control contemporary social media. The argument makes the case that hate crimes committed on social media in the United Kingdom are extensions of early twenty-century statute provisions against routinely unlawful discriminatory behavior. It explores the issue of this crime on social media from the perspective of preventing the online transmission of hostility and public insults. Also, it examines the necessary legislative actions to allow law and enforcement agencies to address this issue effectively. In the current approach to cyberspace, social networks are becoming a vehicle for the persistent spreading of hate-based ideologies, and this needs to be prevented. The study's findings will indicate that construct elaboration in DPP v. Collins could define a Facebook writer’s culpable state of mind, demonstrating hostility within the meaning of section 28 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (United Kingdom). Therefore, social media hate crime, as committed on Facebook, is nothing more than a publicly offensive sign, and the goal of the law is to stop the spread of hatred online by punishing the motivations behind an individual's words.},
  keywords = {hate crime, discrimination crime, social media, hostility, reasoning.},
  note = Article ID: 989773
}