Hate Speech Cases in Cyber Media News Coverage

Abstract

Hate speech is bad communication act. It includes ethnicity, religion, race, intergroup differences. The hate speech case on cyber media news coverage emphasizes an effort to minimize the negative impact in order to maintain pluralism. This research used a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods. The qualitative approach aims to obtain a complete picture of cyberspace news coverage in hate speech cases. The quantitative approach will strengthen the data analysis from the field. The research results are: (1). There are various kinds of news coverage in the hate speech cases. (2). Hate speech cases in cyberspace is interpreted in accordance with the group interests.