Hate speech in online social media
Mithun Das, Binny Mathew, Punyajoy Saha, Pawan Goyal, Animesh Mukherjee
Abstract
Social media platforms like Twitter, Gab, Facebook are available in the market to billions 1 of users. These platforms allow users to share their ideas and opinions instantly almost with no cost. These have already been utilized by bad actors in the society to cause damage. Scenarios like the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, anti-Muslim mob violence in Sri Lanka, and the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting can be linked to these platforms. Recently, hate speech is considered to be one of the major issues poisoning the online social media environment. To keep these platforms healthy there is a need to understand how these hateful content spread, how hateful users behave and finally, what could be an effective way to mitigate hate speech. In this article, we look at the recent advances and issues surrounding hate speech in online social media. We take three different perspectives - analysis & spread, detection , and mitigation.