A Loud Minority Is Warping How We See Each Other Online You leave an hour of doomscrolling convinced the country is splintering. Outside, a neighbor you disagree with politically helps you jumpstart a car. The dissonance is not a glitch. It is how today’s internet works. A recent analysis published in PNAS Nexus argues that a small, hyperactive slice of users produces most of the hostile content online, creating a funhouse mirror in which the rest of us appear meaner than we are.

Your feed says we're at war; your street says we aren't. How bots and algorithms amplify a loud minority—and what smarter moderation could fix. #Algorithms #Bots #Moderation #OnlineToxicity #SocialMedia

🌈 Online toxicity and political equality Jana Belschner analysed 875,000 Twitter exchanges during Germany's 2021 election. Here, she reveals complex patterns in online toxicity between citizens and elites. Politicians’ behaviour matters, but...

🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.32
👩‍💻 Do digital spaces threaten or enhance political equality?
📱 @janabelschner.bsky.social of @ecprgender.bsky.social analysed 875,000 Twitter exchanges during Germany's 2021 election + reveals complex patterns in #OnlineToxicity between citizens & elites.
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The European Commission urges Sweden, Portugal, Croatia, and Latvia to address hate speech targeting marginalized groups, highlighting a rise in online toxicity, particularly antisemitism and anti-Roma content.

#HateSpeech #OnlineToxicity #HumanRights

#OnlineToxicity often disguises itself behind sarcasm, dark humor, and cultural nuance. Our approach bridges the gap between implicit signals in neural models and explicit reasoning through symbolic knowledge, improving recall, accuracy, and interpretability.

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Our work develops a #NeurosymbolicAI approach, KID-VLM, that combines the #LVLMs and commonsense #KnowledgeGraphs to detect subtle and context-rich cues of #OnlineToxicity.

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Join us at the 6th International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats at #ICWSM.

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In today’s environment of rampant #OnlineToxicity & #misinformation, is there any hope that any intervention can offer a solution? @mitchwaldrop.bsky.social reports on large-scale studies in the US that aim to find #EvidenceBased options that actually may help doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Detecting #OnlineToxicity is a challenging problem because it often hides behind sarcasm, dark humor, and cultural references. 🧩 To address this problem, we need models that capture explicit contextual cues and provide culturally informed decision criterion to separate #harmful from #harmless. 🧠📊