While minimising false negatives in hate speech classification remains an important goal in order to reduce discrimination and increase fairness for online communities, there is a growing need to produce models that are sensitive to nuanced language ...

Understanding defining features of conspiracy narratives presents a significant challenge. Existing research predominantly focuses on online platforms as alternative information sources, overlooking the self-reinforcing dynamics influencing content ...

Social media users drive the spread of misinformation online by sharing posts that include erroneous information or commenting on controversial topics with unsubstantiated arguments often in earnest. Work on echo chambers has suggested that users’ ...

Our world is shaped by events of various complexity. This includes both small-scale local events like local farmer markets and large complex events like political and military conflicts. The latter are typically not observed directly but through the ...

The web is a major source for news and information. Yet, news can perpetuate and amplify biases and stereotypes. Prior work has shown that training static word embeddings can expose such biases. In this short paper, we apply both a conventional Word2Vec ...