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Assessing How Hate, Counterspeech, and Toxicity Affect Hate Group Newcomers
Daniel Hickey, Matheus Schmitz, Daniel M. T. Fessler +4
Counterspeech has gained attention as a strategy to reduce hate speech on social media. Although previous studies suggest that counterspeech can reduce hate speech, little is known…
Auditing Elon Musk's Impact on Hate Speech and Bots
Daniel Hickey, Matheus Schmitz, Daniel Fessler +3
On October 27th, 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter, becoming its new CEO and firing many top executives in the process. Musk listed fewer restrictions on content moderation and rem…
No Love Among Haters: Negative Interactions Reduce Hate Community Engagement
Daniel Hickey, Matheus Schmitz, Daniel Fessler +3
While online hate groups pose significant risks to the health of online platforms and safety of marginalized groups, little is known about what causes users to become active in hat…
Quantifying How Hateful Communities Radicalize Online Users
Matheus Schmitz, Keith Burghardt, Goran Muric
While online social media offers a way for ignored or stifled voices to be heard, it also allows users a platform to spread hateful speech. Such speech usually originates in fringe…
Bias and Fairness on Multimodal Emotion Detection Algorithms
Matheus Schmitz, Rehan Ahmed, Jimi Cao
Numerous studies have shown that machine learning algorithms can latch onto protected attributes such as race and gender and generate predictions that systematically discriminate a…
Detecting Anti-Vaccine Users on Twitter
Matheus Schmitz, Goran Murić, Keith Burghardt
Vaccine hesitancy, which has recently been driven by online narratives, significantly degrades the efficacy of vaccination strategies, such as those for COVID-19. Despite broad agr…