Fake News and Hate Speech: Language in Common
Computation and Language
2022-12-06 v1
Abstract
In this paper we raise the research question of whether fake news and hate speech spreaders share common patterns in language. We compute a novel index, the ingroup vs outgroup index, in three different datasets and we show that both phenomena share an "us vs them" narrative.
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@article{arxiv.2212.02352,
title = {Fake News and Hate Speech: Language in Common},
author = {Berta Chulvi and Alejandro Toselli and Paolo Rosso},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.02352},
year = {2022}
}
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