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HateAid

HateAid is a nonprofit limited liability company based in Berlin that provides advice and support to those affected by online hate speech and hate comments. The organisation is independent and non-partisan. It was founded in 2018 by the non-governmental organisations Campact and Fearless Democracy together with Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and is managed by Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon. Both, along with three other Europeans were sanctioned, by the Trump administration in 2025 for "egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship.” HateAid is an organisation which states to be committed to human rights on the internet and to raising awareness of the dangers to democracy and freedom of expression in the digital space for society as a whole. HateAid was involved in several legal disputes with right leaning media outlets in Germany, who frequently targeted the organisations financing model and its entanglement with political parties on the left, based on the support HateAid had gained with the Scholz cabinet after 2021, culminating in a 2026 ruling by a Hamburg court allowing the organisation to be called a "Vorfeldorganisation der Grünen" ("vanguard organisation of the Green party").

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HateAid is a nonprofit limited liability company based in Berlin that provides advice and support to those affected by online hate speech and hate comments. The organisation is independent and non-partisan. It was founded in 2018 by the non-governmental organisations Campact and Fearless Democracy together with Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and is managed by Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon. Both, along with three other Europeans were sanctioned, by the Trump administration in 2025 for "egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship.” HateAid is an organisation which states to be committed to human rights on the internet and to raising awareness of the dangers to democracy and freedom of expression in the digital space for society as a whole. HateAid was involved in several legal disputes with right leaning media outlets in Germany, who frequently targeted the organisations financing model and its entanglement with political parties on the left, based on the support HateAid had gained with the Scholz cabinet after 2021, culminating in a 2026 ruling by a Hamburg court allowing the organisation to be called a "Vorfeldorganisation der Grünen" ("vanguard organisation of the Green party").

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 2018 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "2018". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371398987

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