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WATCH: we're launching ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴛᴀᴛᴇ ᴏꜰ ʜᴀᴛᴇ report today, with a keynote speech from @DavidLammy and a panel of experts who contributed to the report. Join the online event starting at 10am here:

You can read the full report - the definitive look at organised hate, and the conditions that are driving it - now: hopenothate.org.uk/research/state…

We're proud to launch our annual 'State of Hate' report with @DavidLammy. You can join the online event here:

To kick off today's launch event, our CEO @lowles_nick thanks the team who 'The State of Hate' report together, and the members who fund our work and made this report possible. If you're a member: thank you. If you'd like to support our work, head here: donate.hopenothate.org.uk/page/content/H…

"The challenge of hate in Britain today is that it exists from the top to the bottom. This report shows not only how widespread hate is, but how entrenched it is." -- @DavidLammy

.@DavidLammy challenges social media firms to act: "As this report points out, far-right individuals and organisations are dynamic in their use of different platforms for different purposes. Social media platforms need to be just as dynamic in shutting them down."

"Whether it’s anti-Black racism, online hate or conspiracies, we need to ask ourselves: why is it that the majority of these people are men? Most distressingly, we need to ask ourselves why it took the murder of Sarah Everard for us to ask this question?"

"The fundamental truth is that change does not come about by letting other people do the work for you. Change comes about when every one of us fights injustice when we see it. It’s up to us to bend the arc of justice in the right direction." 👏👏👏@davidlammy

We're now hearing from a panel of experts who contributed to the report - including @AfridaCh, @lowles_nick, @RoxKhanWilliams and @JoeMulhall_ - you can join us here:

Politicians who use migration to stoke up anger, and to take advantage of that anger for political gain must be held to account because their actions are dangerous.

Deplatforming the far right from mainstream platforms is a vital tool, and it works - but we have to remember it is only one tool, and we need more action, including legislation, to tackle the migration of the far right to 'alt tech' platforms.

Lockdown has been hard on so many communities - but it has also shown how people can come together, look after each other, work together. There's a lot about this period that can give us hope for the future. -- @RoxKhanWilliams

Ending on a hopeful note: the exposure of the far right and of structural racism in society, and the vibrant organising of resistance to those phenomenons, should give us hope. We can change society for the better.

That's it for today's launch event - we'll have more sessions focusing on key areas of what we found over the coming weeks, look out for details. Thank you to our members and supporters who made this report possible. If you want to join too, head here: donate.hopenothate.org.uk/page/content/H…