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Collective moderation of hate, toxicity, and extremity in online discussions
Jana Lasser, Alina Herderich, Joshua Garland +3
In the digital age, hate speech poses a threat to the functioning of social media platforms as spaces for public discourse. Top-down approaches to moderate hate speech encounter di…
Group Threat, Political Extremity, and Collective Dynamics in Online Discussions
N. Gizem Bacaksizlar Turbic, Mirta Galesic
Collectives adapt their network structure to the challenges they face. It has been hypothesized that collectives experiencing a real or imagined threat from an outgroup tend to con…
Impact and dynamics of hate and counter speech online
Joshua Garland, Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi, Jean-Gabriel Young +2
Citizen-generated counter speech is a promising way to fight hate speech and promote peaceful, non-polarized discourse. However, there is a lack of large-scale longitudinal studies…
Countering hate on social media: Large scale classification of hate and counter speech
Joshua Garland, Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi, Jean-Gabriel Young +2
Hateful rhetoric is plaguing online discourse, fostering extreme societal movements and possibly giving rise to real-world violence. A potential solution to this growing global pro…
Homophily and minority size explain perception biases in social networks
Eun Lee, Fariba Karimi, Claudia Wagner +3
People's perceptions about the size of minority groups in social networks can be biased, often showing systematic over- or underestimation. These social perception biases are often…
Statistical Physics Models of Belief Dynamics: Theory and Empirical Tests
Mirta Galesic, Daniel L. Stein
We build simple computational models of belief dynamics within the framework of discrete-spin statistical physics models, and explore how suitable they are for understanding and pr…
Social learning strategies modify the effect of network structure on group performance
Daniel Barkoczi, Mirta Galesic
The structure of communication networks is an important determinant of the capacity of teams, organizations and societies to solve policy, business and science problems. Yet, previ…