Specialists attending our conference today have broken out into five smaller workspaces for closed discussions. We'll share some of their insights here in our live blog: 

#Politicalcommunication
Workspace 1: Hate speech in political communication 

with:

• Karamba Diaby, Member of the German Bundestag
• Carl Miller, Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, Demos, United Kingdom

Moderation: Sina Laubenstein,Project Lead with the No Hate Speech Movement, New German Media Professionals (NDM)

#Youth(anti)culture 
Workspace 2: Hate speech as youth (anti)culture?
with:

• Emilija Gagrčin, member of the Council of Europe’s Advisory Council on Youth and the European Federation for Intercultural Learning
• Nika Bakhsoliani, Human Rights Education Youth Network

Moderation: Stefanie Fächner, State Media Authority of Rhineland-Palatinate

#Localinvolvement
Workspace 3: Hate speech and local involvement
with:

• Tjark Bartels, district chief executive a.D., district Hameln-Pyrmont
• Péter Niedermüller, Mayor of Erzsébetváros district in Budapest, Hungary

Moderation: Anne Haller, head of the political education centre KommunalAkademie NRW, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

#marginalisedgroups 
Workspace 4: Hate speech against marginalised groups

with:

• Tímea Junghaus, Director of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC)
• Juliana Santos Wahlgren, Senior Advocacy Officer, European Network Against Racism

Moderation: Gilda Sahebi, project leader with the No Hate Speech Movement, New German Media Professionals (NDM)

#antifeminist
Workspace 5: Antifeminist hate speech online

Mit: Anne Wizorek, digital strategy consultant, author and feminist activist, Germany
Svetlana Zakharova, feminist and board member at the organisation Russian LGBT Network

Moderation: Julia Bläsius, gender politics expert, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

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