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A Weakly Supervised Classifier and Dataset of White Supremacist Language

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We present a dataset and classifier for detecting the language of white supremacist extremism, a growing issue in online hate speech. Our weakly supervised classifier is trained on large datasets of text from explicitly white supremacist domains paired with neutral and anti-racist data from similar domains. We demonstrate that this approach improves generalization performance to new domains. Incorporating anti-racist texts as counterexamples to white supremacist language mitigates bias.

Michael Miller Yoder, Ahmad Diab, David West Brown, Kathleen M. Carley• 2023

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TaskDatasetResultRank
White supremacist language classificationRieger (test)
AUC (ROC)0.903
10
White supremacist language classificationSiegel (test)
ROC AUC96.8
9
White supremacist language classificationADL (unseen)
ROC AUC89.2
5
White supremacist language classificationTwitter dataset (test)
AUC (ROC)0.716
5
White supremacist language classificationAlatawi (test)
ROC AUC71
4
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