UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues [DRAFT FOR GLOBAL CONSULTATION] The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights8 have emerged as the golden standard by which private actors, including social media companies, are increasingly held and are holding themselves to account. It has at its core concerns related to severity of human rights harms, their causality to the companies’ actions and most importantly the cross-cutting theme of protection of vulnerable and marginalised groups, including minorities. It is hoped and intended that these Guidelines can be utilised as an extension and elaboration of how such companies should achieve this in relation to the specific intersection of online hate speech targeting minorities on social media platforms. 8 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, UN OHCHR, 2011 (UNGP). 5