Evaluating the effectiveness of deplatforming as a moderation strategy on Twitter

S Jhaver, C Boylston, D Yang, A Bruckman - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Deplatforming refers to the permanent ban of controversial public figures with large
followings on social media sites. In recent years, platforms like Facebook, Twitter and …

Recent advances in hate speech moderation: Multimodality and the role of large models

MS Hee, S Sharma, R Cao, P Nandi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the evolving landscape of online communication, moderating hate speech (HS) presents
an intricate challenge, compounded by the multimodal nature of digital content. This …

Children's safety on youtube: A systematic review

SI Alqahtani, WMS Yafooz, A Alsaeedi, L Syed… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: With digital transformation and growing social media usage, kids spend
considerable time on the web, especially watching videos on YouTube. YouTube is a source …

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 …

The effect of toxicity on COVID-19 news network formation in political subcommunities on Reddit: An affiliation network approach

W Chipidza - International Journal of Information Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Political polarization remains perhaps the “greatest barrier” to effective COVID-19 pandemic
mitigation measures in the United States. Social media has been implicated in fueling this …

Developing a socio-computational approach to examine toxicity propagation and regulation in COVID-19 discourse on YouTube

A Obadimu, T Khaund, E Mead, T Marcoux… - Information Processing …, 2021 - Elsevier
As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to ravage the world at an unprecedented
rate, formal recommendations from medical experts are becoming muffled by the avalanche …

A NLP framework based on meaningful latent-topic detection and sentiment analysis via fuzzy lattice reasoning on youtube comments

H Jelodar, Y Wang, M Rabbani, SBB Ahmadi… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2021 - Springer
Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube have unique architecture,
norms, and culture. These platforms are valuable sources of people's opinions which should …

Winning! Election returns and engagement in social media

E Calvo, T Ventura, N Aruguete, S Waisbord - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
This article analyzes social media engagement when elections are adjudicated to one of the
contending parties. We extend existing models of political dialogue to explain differences in …

Investigating cross-lingual training for offensive language detection

A Pelicon, R Shekhar, B Škrlj, M Purver… - PeerJ Computer …, 2021 - peerj.com
Platforms that feature user-generated content (social media, online forums, newspaper
comment sections etc.) have to detect and filter offensive speech within large, fast-changing …

Building socially responsible conversational agents using big data to support online learning: A case with Algebra Nation

C Li, W Xing, W Leite - British Journal of Educational …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A discussion forum is a valuable tool to support student learning in online contexts.
However, interactions in online discussion forums are sparse, leading to other issues such …