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Cities with racial tweets report more hate crimes

By Ajit Editor

Posted on 26/06/2019

New York: Researchers have found that cities with a higher incidence of racist tweets reported more actual hate crimes related to race, ethnicity and national origin. The study, presented at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and Social Media, analysed 532 million tweets published between 2011 and 2016. “We found that more targeted, discriminatory tweets posted in a city related to a higher number of hate crimes. This trend across different types of cities confirms the need to more specifically study how different types of discriminatory speech online may contribute to consequences in the physical world,” said Rumi Chunara. Researchers have found that cities with a higher incidence of racist tweets reported more actual hate crimes related to race, ethnicity and national origin.

The study, presented at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and Social Media, analysed 532 million tweets published between 2011 and 2016. “We found that more targeted, discriminatory tweets posted in a city related to a higher number of hate crimes. This trend across different types of cities confirms the need to more specifically study how different types of discriminatory speech online may contribute to consequences in the physical world,” said Rumi Chunara.

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Cities with racial tweets report more hate crimes

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