Challenges and Insights in Identifying Hate Speech and Fake News on Social Media

Shanthi Murugan, Arthi R, Boomika E, Jeyanth S, Kaviyarasu S


Abstract
Social media has transformed communication, but it has also brought abouta number of serious problems, most notablythe proliferation of hate speech and falseinformation. hate-related conversations arefrequently fueled by misleading narratives.We address this issue by building a multiclassclassification model trained on Faux HateMulti-Label Dataset (Biradar et al. 2024)which consists of hateful remarks that arefraudulent and have a code mix of Hindi andEnglish. Model has been built to classifySeverity (Low, Medium, High) and Target(Individual, Organization, Religion) on thedataset. Performance of the model isevaluated on test dataset achieved varyingscored for each. For Severity model achieves74%, for Target model achieves 74%. Thelimitations and performance issues of themodel has been understood and wellexplained.
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2024.icon-fauxhate.4
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Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON): Shared Task on Decoding Fake Narratives in Spreading Hateful Stories (Faux-Hate)
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December
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2024
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AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India
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Shankar Biradar, Kasu Sai Kartheek Reddy, Sunil Saumya, Md. Shad Akhtar
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ICON
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SIGLEX
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NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
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16–21
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Shanthi Murugan, Arthi R, Boomika E, Jeyanth S, and Kaviyarasu S. 2024. Challenges and Insights in Identifying Hate Speech and Fake News on Social Media. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON): Shared Task on Decoding Fake Narratives in Spreading Hateful Stories (Faux-Hate), pages 16–21, AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
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Challenges and Insights in Identifying Hate Speech and Fake News on Social Media (Murugan et al., ICON 2024)
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