BBC unit to monitor 'hate speech'.

BBC Monitoring, the corporation's government-funded arm that tracks the world's media, is to turn cyber-spy and monitor internet chat sites in a bid to pick up 'hate speech' that could point to new areas of ethnic unrest around the globe, writes Leigh Hol

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