Israel–Hamas war through Telegram, Reddit and Twitter
March 4, 2025The Israeli-Palestinian conflict started on 7 October 2023, have resulted thus far to over 48,000 people killed including more than 17,000 children with a majority from Gaza, more than 30,000 people injured, over 10,000 missing, and over 1 million people displaced, fleeing conflict zones. The infrastructure damage includes the 87\% of housing units, 80\% of ...
Topological Data Mapping of Online Hate Speech, Misinformation, and General Mental Health: A Large Language Model Based Study
December 4, 2024The advent of social media has led to an increased concern over its potential to propagate hate speech and misinformation, which, in addition to contributing to prejudice and discrimination, has been suspected of playing a role in increasing social violence and crimes in the United States. While literature has shown the existence of an association ...
Upvoting Extremism, Part I: An Assessment Of Extreme Right Discourse On Reddit
August 21, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Upvoting Extremism, Part II: An Assessment of Extreme-Right Discourse on Reddit
August 21, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
The Importance of Proportionality and Transparency in the Moderation of Borderline Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content
August 12, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
The Plight of Straight White Men: Main Findings from a Study of the Subreddit r/unpopularopinion
August 12, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Incel Culture: What We’ve Learned From Investigating Plymouth Attacker’s Digital Footprint
August 9, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Don’t (Just) Blame Echo Chambers. Conspiracy Theorists Actively Seek Out Their Online Communities
August 7, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Violent Misogyny, Mass Murder and Suicide: It’s Time to Save Incels from Themselves
August 7, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...