Detecting harmful content on online platforms: what platforms need vs. where research efforts go

A Arora, P Nakov, M Hardalov, SM Sarwar… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The proliferation of harmful content on online platforms is a major societal problem, which
comes in many different forms, including hate speech, offensive language, bullying and …

A framework of severity for harmful content online

MK Scheuerman, JA Jiang, C Fiesler… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The proliferation of harmful content on online social media platforms has necessitated
empirical understandings of experiences of harm online and the development of practices …

Mastodon content warnings: Inappropriate contents in a microblogging platform

M Zignani, C Quadri, A Galdeman, S Gaito… - … ON WEBLOGS AND …, 2019 - air.unimi.it
Our social communications and the expression of our beliefs and thoughts are becoming
increasingly mediated and diffused by online social media. Beyond countless other …

A unified taxonomy of harmful content

M Banko, B MacKeen, L Ray - … of the fourth workshop on online …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
The ability to recognize harmful content within online communities has come into focus for
researchers, engineers and policy makers seeking to protect users from abuse. While the …

Characterizations of online harassment: Comparing policies across social media platforms

JA Pater, MK Kim, ED Mynatt, C Fiesler - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Harassment in online spaces is increasingly part of public debate and concern. Pervasive
problems like cyberbullying, hate speech, and the glorification of self-harm have highlighted …

The impact of toxic language on the health of reddit communities

S Mohan, A Guha, M Harris, F Popowich… - Advances in Artificial …, 2017 - Springer
There are numerous on-line communities in which people converse about various topics
and issues. It is usually necessary to monitor on-line forums to ensure that conversations …

Behavior change in response to subreddit bans and external events

PB Thomas, D Riehm, M Glenski… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As more people flock to social media to connect with others and form virtual communities, it
is important to research how members of these groups interact to understand human …

Understanding international perceptions of the severity of harmful content online

JA Jiang, MK Scheuerman, C Fiesler, JR Brubaker - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Online social media platforms constantly struggle with harmful content such as
misinformation and violence, but how to effectively moderate and prioritize such content for …

Reconsidering tweets: Intervening during tweet creation decreases offensive content

M Katsaros, K Yang, L Fratamico - … AAAI Conference on Web and Social …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
The proliferation of harmful and offensive content is a problem that many online platforms
face today. One of the most common approaches for moderating offensive content online is …

Mitigating harmful content on social media using an interactive user interface

GK Shahi, W Kana Tsoplefack - International Conference on Social …, 2022 - Springer
With the rapid growth in the number of users on social networking sites (SNS), harmful
content has also been fueled enormously over time. The purpose of harmful content is …