A measurement study of hate speech in social media

Abstract

Social media platforms provide an inexpensive communication medium that allows anyone to quickly reach millions of users. Consequently, in these platforms anyone can publish content and anyone interested in the content can obtain it, representing a transformative revolution in our society. However, this same potential of social media systems brings together an important challenge—these systems provide space for discourses that are harmful to certain groups of people. This challenge manifests itself with a number of