Online Hate & violence Speech and its impact on violence towards women in Egyptian society

The study aimed at Identifying the nature and content of topics related to hate speech towards women via the Internet (SNS), and knowing the impact of such speech on violence against women in Egyptian society, as well as identifying the extent to which university students adopt online hate speech through the content published on the Internet. Thus, the study seeks revealing The role of the Internet represented in Social media in promoting such discourse, in addition to the resulting violence, by analyzing the topics published on various pages, that contribute to the spread of this discourse and the resulting violence against women in Egyptian society, and the methods used in the publications to influence the audience public opinion.
The study relies on the survey methodology in analytical and field study. The sample of the study, in its qualitative analytical part, includes a number of Facebook pages and groups, during the period that coincided with the murder of Nayra Ashraf in June 2022, during which Facebook witnessed a large amount of rising hate speech towards women, to stand on the determinants of hate speech towards women, while the field study sample includes (300) individuals from the Egyptian college students.
The study reached a number of important results, most notably: social hate speech came in second place with a rate of (29%), after political speech with a rate of (33%), followed by sports hate speech in third place with a rate of (27%). Respondents described hatred as "exposing the secrets of others", followed by other expressions of hatred such as defamation, the use of insulting stigmatization of the other, marginalization of the other and accusations against him.
The study also concluded that most of the respondents agreed, with a high percentage, that social media has a major role in the spread of social hate speech. For that case has divided Public opinion between supporters and opponents. Most of them also agreed that Naira Ashraf is  victim, not an accuser, who deserves what happened to her, The respondents stated that the most important consequences that may result from the spread of violence and hate speech in society, citing the example of Naira Ashraf, is the oppression and harassment of women in society.