They're pretty much talking about all of us, right?-----Stopping online hate speech is hard. New research teaches machines to find white nationalist content. - mlive.com

Stopping online hate speech is hard. New research teaches machines to find white nationalist content. - mlive.com  By Malachi Barrett | mbarret1@mlive.com

"Mitigating the impact of online extremism has proven a complicated task for companies that want to protect free expression.

Social media companies have struggled to moderate hate speech and adapt to changes in how white supremacists spread their views on digital platforms. 

Libby Hemphill, an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, believes machine learning technology might provide an answer.

“We know that white supremacists and other types of extremists use social media to talk to each other, to recruit, to try to get their message to go mainstream,” Hemphill said. 

“The challenge has been that the platforms haven’t really stepped up to fight hate on their platforms.”...Read all.