Alt-right's 'Twitter' is hate-speech hub

• Autores: Chris Stokel-Walker
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3167, 2018, pág. 15
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Created by Andrew Torba in response to claims that regular social media suppresses right-wing debate, Gab has a similar design to Twitter and claims it champions free speech, but has evolved into a haven for hate speech, according to an 18-month analysis of more than 22 million posts by 336,752 users. Savvas Zannettou at Cyprus University of Technology and his colleagues cross-checked Gab posts against terms in Hatebase, a database used by governments and non-governmental organisations to track the spread of hate speech