Our Results

The inital results of our analysis of hate speech can be seen in our 2019 working paper "Monitoring Hate Speech in US Media." We are currently working on an updated paper using the November 2020-January 2021 hate speech dataset.

Hate speech targeting minority groups is often associated with acts of political violence. One of the main disseminators of hate speech is the mass media, which continues to draw large audiences in Western states, but also act as a key source of content on social media. This working paper is based on a research project that aims to create awareness and accountability regarding hate speech by identifying the sources, targets and intensity of hate speech in leading US media political talk/news shows, focusing on the top 10 conservative and top 10 liberal shows by audience size across radio, cable news and YouTube. The study uses a keyword-based automated extraction method to identify potential cases of hate speech, which are then validated by human coders on a novel 6-point hate speech intensity scale.

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