CONAN--COunter NArratives through Nichesourcing: a Multilingual Dataset of Responses to Fight Online Hate Speech

Abstract

Although there is an unprecedented effort to provide adequate responses in terms of laws and policies to hate content on social media platforms, dealing with hatred online is still a tough problem. Tackling hate speech in the standard way of content deletion or user suspension may be charged with censorship and overblocking. One alternate strategy, that has received little attention so far by the research community, is to actually oppose hate content with counter-narratives (ie informed textual responses). In this paper, we describe