Researcher, AddressHateMarco Mortato

Marco Mortato is a linguist whose work addresses multilingualism, psycholinguistics, and linguistic behavior in digital contexts. He holds an MA in Linguistics and Cognitive Studies from the University of Siena (2026), where he began investigating hate speech through computational and discourse-analytic methods — work that traces both the complexity of hateful communication and the challenges it poses for automated detection. His earlier research on regional sociolinguistic variation and cross-linguistic analysis sharpened his attention to the fine-grained cues through which language carries social meaning.

At AddressHate, his research centers on the annotation and analysis of online hate speech, with particular attention to the linguistic, contextual, and pragmatic cues that distinguish coded hateful content from explicit forms of hateful communication.