<span style="color: #222222;">UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today in Christchurch, New Zealand warned that hate speech was spreading online like wildfire. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He was speaking at a meeting with the victims of the Christchurch mosque shootings. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mr  Guterres vowed that the world body will lead efforts to extinguish the problem. He told the victims of the worst mass shooting in modern New Zealand history that there had been a dangerous upsurge in hatred as social media was exploited to promote bigotry.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The UN chief visited the Al Noor mosque, one of two Muslim centres in Christchurch where a self-described white supremacist killed 51 people in a March 15th shooting that the attacker live-streamed on Facebook. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Antonio Guterres is travelling to the South Pacific region to highlight the impact of climate change but said he also wanted to show his support for Christchurch's Muslim community during Ramazan.</span><br />