Hatemongers ride on echo chambers to escalate hate speech diffusion
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02479v1
- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 20:30:48 GMT
- Title: Hatemongers ride on echo chambers to escalate hate speech diffusion
- Authors: Vasu Goel, Dhruv Sahnan, Subhabrata Dutta, Anil Bandhakavi, Tanmoy
Chakraborty
- Abstract summary: We analyze more than 32 million posts from over 6.8 million users across three popular online social networks.
We find that hatemongers play a more crucial role in governing the spread of information compared to singled-out hateful content.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: Recent years have witnessed a swelling rise of hateful and abusive content
over online social networks. While detection and moderation of hate speech have
been the early go-to countermeasures, the solution requires a deeper
exploration of the dynamics of hate generation and propagation. We analyze more
than 32 million posts from over 6.8 million users across three popular online
social networks to investigate the interrelations between hateful behavior,
information dissemination, and polarised organization mediated by echo
chambers. We find that hatemongers play a more crucial role in governing the
spread of information compared to singled-out hateful content. This observation
holds for both the growth of information cascades as well as the conglomeration
of hateful actors. Dissection of the core-wise distribution of these networks
points towards the fact that hateful users acquire a more well-connected
position in the social network and often flock together to build up information
cascades. We observe that this cohesion is far from mere organized behavior;
instead, in these networks, hatemongers dominate the echo chambers -- groups of
users actively align themselves to specific ideological positions. The observed
dominance of hateful users to inflate information cascades is primarily via
user interactions amplified within these echo chambers. We conclude our study
with a cautionary note that popularity-based recommendation of content is
susceptible to be exploited by hatemongers given their potential to escalate
content popularity via echo-chambered interactions.
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