From Online Hate Speech to Offline Hate Crime: the Role of Inflammatory Language in Forecasting Violence Against Migrant and LGBT Communities

From online hate speech to offline hate crime: the role of inflammatory language in forecasting violence against migrant and LGBT communities

Social media messages often provide insights into offline behaviors. Although hate speech proliferates rapidly across social media platforms, it is rarely recognized as a cybercrime, even when it may be linked to offline hate crimes that typically involve physical violence. This paper aims to anticipate violent acts by analyzing online hate speech (hatred, toxicity, and sentiment) and comparing it to offline hate crime. The dataset for this prer…

Profiting From Hate: Social Media Giants Failing LGBTQ+ Users

GLAAD's new Social Media Safety Index reveals that major social media platforms are failing to provide basic protections to ensure the safety of LGBTQ+ users.

Kirk’s hate speech has no place at UCR - Highlander

Courtesy of Gage Skidmore via Flickr On May 9, 2025, Charlie Kirk, conservative right-wing media personality and founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), hosted his “The American Comeback Tour” at the University of California, Riverside (UCR).  Amassing a crowd of students, community members, supporters and protestors, Kirk set up outside the Bell Tower to “debate conventional narratives promoted by leftist academia” and “provide students of all vi…

The 36-year-old posted xenophobic, racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic messages on social media