Detecting weak and strong Islamophobic hate speech on social media

Understand

Islamophobic hate speech on social media inflicts considerable harm on both targeted individuals and wider society, and also risks reputational damage for the host platforms.

• Accordingly, there is a pressing need for robust tools to detect and classify Islamophobic hate speech at scale.
• Previous research has largely approached the detection of Islamophobic hate speech on social media as a binary task.
• However, the varied nature of Islamophobia means that this is often inappropriate for both theoretically-informed social science and effectively monitoring social media.