Analyzing the hate and counter speech accounts on Twitter

Understand

The online hate speech is proliferating with several organization and countries implementing laws to ban such harmful speech.

• While these restrictions might reduce the amount of such hateful content, it does so by restricting freedom of speech.
• Thus, an promising alternative supported by several organizations is to counter such hate speech with more speech.
• In this paper, We analyze hate speech and the corresponding counters (aka counterspeech) on Twitter.