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most citedHow toxic is antisemitism? Potentials and limitations of automated toxicity scoring for antisemitic online content

4 citations · 11 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.HC2026

Ctrl-F-Resist. Practices, Challenges, and Technical Needs of Civil Society Organizations Monitoring the Far-Right Online

Elisabeth Steffen, Helena Mihaljević

As far-right actors increasingly exploit online platforms to disseminate ideology and mobilize supporters, civil society organizations (CSOs) play a vital yet underrecognized role…

cs.HC2025

Civil Society in the Loop: Feedback-Driven Adaptation of (L)LM-Assisted Classification in an Open-Source Telegram Monitoring Tool

Milena Pustet, Elisabeth Steffen, Helena Mihaljević +2

The role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in monitoring harmful online content is increasingly crucial, especially as platform providers reduce their investment in content mod…

cs.SI2024★ 2 cited

More than Memes: A Multimodal Topic Modeling Approach to Conspiracy Theories on Telegram

Elisabeth Steffen

To address the increasing prevalence of (audio-)visual data on social media, and to capture the evolving and dynamic nature of this communication, researchers have begun to explore…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Detection of Conspiracy Theories Beyond Keyword Bias in German-Language Telegram Using Large Language Models

Milena Pustet, Elisabeth Steffen, Helena Mihaljević

The automated detection of conspiracy theories online typically relies on supervised learning. However, creating respective training data requires expertise, time and mental resili…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

How toxic is antisemitism? Potentials and limitations of automated toxicity scoring for antisemitic online content

Helena Mihaljević, Elisabeth Steffen

The Perspective API, a popular text toxicity assessment service by Google and Jigsaw, has found wide adoption in several application areas, notably content moderation, monitoring,…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Codes, Patterns and Shapes of Contemporary Online Antisemitism and Conspiracy Narratives -- an Annotation Guide and Labeled German-Language Dataset in the Context of COVID-19

Elisabeth Steffen, Helena Mihaljević, Milena Pustet +4

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, existing conspiracy theories were refreshed and new ones were created, often interwoven with antisemitic narratives, stereotypes and codes…