Tracking Hate 2.0 on the Web - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

An anti-social networking reality check; see the full post for more details

The Internet is seeing a stark rise in the number of hate and terror sites and Web postings, according to a Congressional briefing last week entitled “Hate in the Information Age.”

At the briefing, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an associate dean at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights group based in Los Angeles, presented the organization’s annual study of online terror and hate. He said the group had identified some 8,000 problematic sites in the last 12 months, a 30 percent spike over last year.

Tracking Hate 2.0 on the Web - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog