One challenge shared by many of our municipal government and law enforcement users, as well as by regional NGOs in low bandwidth areas, is the paucity of relevant sightings data at the local level.
Although Hatebase monitors various public data sources for online hate speech, stricter privacy policies and legislation over the past few years have impacted the granularity with which we can geolocate data. This lack of community-level data poses a significant problem for regional organizations and governments, forcing them to do their own monitoring and requiring a non-trivial expenditure of time and resources.
To help solve this problem, Hatebase has developed an easily-installed hate speech intake widget: a form which can be installed on any website using a single line of code.
Because this code is HTML, it's non-executable, which means the only server it runs on is ours, and so it introduces zero security risk to any existing web infrastructure. Once provisioned, it can be self-configured through the Hatebase website, installed on an external website in a matter of minutes, and instantly be available for users to submit hate speech reports. This hyperlocal incident data can then be retrieved through the Hatebase API just like any other Hatebase data.
We've posted complete integration documentation on GitHub, but here's a short "how to" for getting up and running quickly:
If you encounter any problems, please let us know.