Recent right-wing extremist terrorists were active in online fringe communities connected to
the alt-right movement. Although these are commonly considered as distinctly hateful, racist …

Recently, social media platforms are heavily moderated to prevent the spread of online hate
speech, which is usually fertile in toxic words and is directed toward an individual or a …

We present the first English corpus study on abusive language towards three conversational
AI systems gathered" in the wild": an open-domain social bot, a rule-based chatbot, and a …

Popular messaging applications now enable end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) by default, and
E2EE data storage is becoming common. These important advances for security and privacy …

Offensive speech detection is a key component of content moderation. However, what is
offensive can be highly subjective. This paper investigates how machine and human …

Social media has become an indispensable channel for political communication. However,
the political discourse is increasingly characterized by hate speech, which affects not only …

Tactics, Threats & Targets: Modeling Disinformation & its Mitigation Page 1 Tactics, Threats &
Targets: Modeling Disinformation & its Mitigation Shujaat Mirza, Liang Niu Paolo Papotti …

Online hate speech is responsible for violent attacks such as, eg, the Pittsburgh synagogue
shooting in 2018, thereby posing a significant threat to vulnerable groups and society in …

Social media platforms are involved in all aspects of social life, including in conflict settings.
Incidental choices about how they are designed can have profound effects on people when …

The spread of COVID-19 and the lockdowns that followed led to an increase in activity on
online social networks. This has resulted in users sharing unfiltered and unreliable …