What Social Media Platforms Miss About White Supremacist Speech
2023

Description

These data explore social media platforms’ shortcomings when it comes to white supremacist speech and how it differs from general or nonextremist speech, and recommends ways to improve automated hate speech identification methods.
Data include 274,668 posts scraped from Stormfront and 509,982 comments collected from the Reddit API. The following files are included:
  • stormfront_posts.txt: one post per line, no post metadata
  • reddit_posts.txt: one comment per line, no comment metadata
  • stormfront_post_data_processed.json.gz: preprocessed posts from Stormfront, includes post metadata
  • reddit_sample.csv.gz: preprocessed comments from Reddit, includes comment metadata
Twitter data used in the report is not available for public reuse because of Twitter's terms of service and our data use agreement with VOX-Pol.

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Title What Social Media Platforms Miss About White Supremacist Speech
Creator Hemphill, Libby Principal Investigator (University of Michigan)
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Issued Date 2023-01-26
Creation Date 2021-12-06
Version v1
Alternate Identifiers DOI: https://doi.org/10.3886/E156161
Access Rights Data publicly available on openICPSR: What Social Media Platforms Miss About White Supremacist Speech
Funding Information Anti-Defamation League
Citation Hemphill, Libby. What Social Media Platforms Miss About White Supremacist Speech. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-12-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E156161V1
Record Appears in X (formerly Twitter)
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Reddit
Platform Reddit
Twitter
Related Resources Very Fine People: What Social Media Platforms Miss About White Supremacist Speech, Report, URL, (https://www.adl.org/resources/report/very-fine-people)

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