Analysing hate speech towards women on Reddit
Artemis Deligianni, Zachary Horne · 2023
Men's rights activists have formed male-supremacist, antifeminist men's groups seeking to undermine and exclude women from male-dominated spaces. Currently, hate speech detection struggles with some nuances in language, and men's rights hate speech is incredibly varied and nuanced. Therefore, we used topic modelling and sentiment analysis to understand why men's rights hate speech is hard to detect and to guide development of future hate speech detection algorithms. Our analysis revealed that although all three groups focused on women in their discussions, men's rights groups were more focused on grievances, such as being rejected by women or what they perceived to be discrimination against men. These results replicate prior qualitative research and highlight promising directions for both improving classification performance of hate speech and better understanding cross-cultural hate speech towards women.