CASCAIS, Portugal — Uncontrolled social media networks and artificial intelligence amplify the worst human impulses, allowing hate speech to spread like wildfire and ignite violence, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday.

"We must reign in hate speech and disinformation spreading online," Guterres told a top-level meeting of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) in Portugal.

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