Almost 90% of the hate speech on the Latvian Internet is in Latvian.
Jews, dark-skinned people and homosexuals often become the targets of hate speech in the Latvian section of the Internet. Moreover, almost 90% of such statements were published in Latvian.
The Latvian Center for Human Rights reached these conclusions after studying social media posts and comments on news portals for the period from May 2025 to June 2026.
The study also showed that online platforms do not always respond to complaints. In international social networks, about 60% of the materials that users complained about were deleted or restricted for viewing in Latvia and the European Union. However, in 40.5% of the cases the publications remained accessible.
On Latvian news portals, after complaints, 54 out of 98 comments, or 55%, were deleted.