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Lisa Hilte1, Ilia Markov2, Nikola Ljubešić3,4,5
1CLIPS, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Introduction:
We examine the profiles of hate speech authors in a multilingual dataset of Facebook reactions to news posts discussing topics related to migrants and the LGBT+ community. The included languages are English, Dutch, Slovenian, and Croatian.
Methods:
First, all utterances were manually annotated as hateful or acceptable speech. Next, we used binary logistic regression to inspect how the production of hateful comments is impacted by authors' profiles (i.e., their age, gender, and language).
Results:
Our results corroborate previous findings: in all four languages, men produce more hateful comments than women, and people produce more hate speech as they grow older. But our findings also add important nuance to previously attested tendencies: specific age and gender dynamics vary slightly in different languages or cultures, suggesting that distinct (e.g., socio-political) realities are at play.
Discussion:
Finally, we discuss why author demographics are important in the study of hate speech: the profiles of prototypical "haters" can be used for hate speech detection, for sensibilization on and for counter-initiatives to the spread of (online) hatred.
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