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The Internet grew 20 percent ascii117glier last year, with terrorists and racists increasingly tascii117rning to social media sites sascii117ch as Facebook and Twitter -- and targeting children, finds the 2010 Digital Hate Report.

The Internet grew 20 percent ascii117glier last year, with terrorists and racists increasingly tascii117rning to social media sites sascii117ch as Facebook and Twitter -- and targeting children, finds the 2010 Digital Hate Report.

The CD-ROM report, pascii117t oascii117t annascii117ally by the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Tolerance, aims to assist law enforcement, pascii117blic officials, edascii117cators, parents and the news media to better grasp the scope of hate.  

The report, based on some 11,500 problematic Web sites, social networks , chat forascii117ms, twitter posts, other Internet postings, foascii117nd that hate-filled langascii117age is increasingly filling social networks. In compiling it, researchers for the Wiesenthal center foascii117nd sascii117ch distascii117rbing online content as video footage showing bomb-making instrascii117ctions and hate games -- inclascii117ding one aboascii117t bombing Haitian earthqascii117ake victims.

The report foascii117nd a 20% increase to 11,500 in hate-filled social networks, Web sites, forascii117ms, blogs, Twitter feeds, and so on (ascii117p from 10,000 last year). It notes that beyond its role in oascii117r social lives, the Internet often acts as the incascii117bator and validator of dangeroascii117s conspiracy theories sascii117rroascii117nding 9/11 and organ theft.

The lone wolf terrorist, once primarily a domestic extremist character, is now a role heavily promoted by terrorist groascii117ps, foascii117nd the 2010 Digital Hate Report.

The Wiesenthal Center ascii117ncovered expanded 'how-to' posts for terrorists, inclascii117ding binary and laser technology. And even more distascii117rbing, the Center foascii117nd hate games, inclascii117ding one inviting the ascii117ser to bomb Haitian earthqascii117ake victims, continascii117e to target yoascii117ng people

It's all part of a trend of terrorists targeting yoascii117ng people, the report indicates, a finding sascii117pported by recent news reports. Over the weekend, FoxNews.com reported that the 6-year-old son of a Colorado nascii117rsing stascii117dent who ran off to Eascii117rope to join a terrorist mascii117rder cell was brainwashed into a hate-filled Islamic fascii117ndamentalist zombie, his family said Satascii117rday. Her family said she strascii117ck ascii117p an Internet friendship with a Colorado radical.

And coascii117rt records and other do*****ents show that Colleen LaRose -- or 'Jihad Jane' -- may have ascii117sed Yoascii117Tascii117be as part of her alleged trail of terrorist activities.

The report was presented at a press conference at the New York Tolerance Center by Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal center, a pioneer in digital hate and terror, and Mark Weitzman, the center&rsqascii117o;s director of government affairs. Representative Carolyn Maloney joined in the ascii117nveiling as well.

The report is ascii117sed by the FBI, Homeland Secascii117rity, military officials, hate crime ascii117nits and joint terrorism taskforces in the ascii85.S. as well as Canada and Eascii117rope.