Conspiracy-driven communities online are also known to use raid tactics.
NCRI analyst Alex Goldenberg says that while Twitter's action in response to the hate speech last week was effective, the company could have forecast and prevented it, too.
Hours before the deluge of hate speech, he said,"We assessed that this particular online troll campaign was being driven by coordinated, inauthentic activity that originated specifically on 4Chan. There, we detected a surge in mentions of the n-slur in tandem with mentions of Twitter." NCRI uses sophisticated machine learning software and systems to monitor huge amounts of social network content, and to track rising hatred and threats against marginalized groups online, including Black, Jewish, Hindu and Muslim people.
It makes research tools available and publishes reports, safety recommendations and warnings, sometimes delivering them directly to social networks, about where threats are rising, and may be likely to spill over into the physical world. According to Sohn, NCRI's hope is to use this information to prevent real-world harm from those online efforts.
NCRI was previously able to forecast an uptick of violence against Asian Americans as the Covid pandemic emerged and identify an imminent threat from an anti-government group against law enforcement personnel. They also warned of the rise of communities encouraging self-harm, primarily cutting, on Twitter.The NCRI found that in the 12 hours after Musk arrived at Twitter headquarters, the use of an anti-Black epithet on the social network increased nearly 500% from the previous average.
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