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HATERS GONNA HATE

Dissecting hate speech on social media

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WHAT IS HATE SPEECH?

“Illegal hate speech is defined as the public incitement to violence or hatred directed to groups or individuals on the basis of certain characteristics, including race, colour, religion, descent and national or ethnic origin”

European Commission, 2018

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WHAT’S THE ISSUE?

BLURRED DEFINITION
DEPENDENT ON CULTURAL CONTEXT
IMPLICIT FORMS OF HATE SPEECH

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RESEARCH QUESTIONS

How valuable is the use of hatebase.org as a repository

of multilingual hate speech?

Is neutral a synonim of non-hateful?

Which words can trigger

explicit hate?

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WORKFLOW

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KEY FINDINGS

Hate speech is often “latent”
Regular words might vehiculate hateful content
Machine learning needs human help

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MEASURING HATE

How valuable is the use of hatebase.org as a hate speech detector?

RESEARCH QUESTION_01

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HATEBASE

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HATE SPEECH TOPICS

GENDER
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
RELIGION
ETHNICITY

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ALT-RIGHT OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE

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OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE DROP

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HYPOTHESIS

Hatebase.org is not reliable

for a multilingual approach

Hate speech might still exists

in other forms despite

the offensive terms drop

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NON-HATEFUL HATING

Is neutral a synonim of non-hateful?

RESEARCH QUESTION_02

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PROTOCOL

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TRUMP&TRIGGERING

Which neutral words can trigger

explicit hate?

PHASE03

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HATE SPEECH

TRIGGERING POSTS

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TRIGGERED BEHAVIORS CATEGORIES

BLOCKING
HATE EXPOSED
HATEFUL / TRIGGERED FIREBACK
HATEFUL RANDOM

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TRIGGERED REACTIONS

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FINDINGS

Supportive language towards Trump triggers hate speech (towards Trump)�
Trigger words generate either blocking and hate speech towards Trump�
Trigger words generate explicit forms of hate speech

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THANK YOU!