Monitoring Targeted Hate in Online Environments
Table 2: The websites included in our study.
['[BOLD] Website', '[BOLD] # comments', '[BOLD] # words']
In Sweden, as well as in several other European countries, there has been a recent surge in activity and formation of movements that are critical of immigration. These immigration-critical groups show a high interactivity on social media and on websites. In Sweden, there are several digital immigration-critical milieus with a similar structure: articles published by editorial staff and user-generated comments. The commentary fields are not moderated, which makes the comments an important scene to express hate toward journalists, politicians, artists, and other public figures. The comment section allows readers to respond to an editorial article instantly. The editorial articles generally focuses on topics such as crimes, migration, politics and societal issues. For each website, we have downloaded all comments between 2014/09/01 to 2017/10/01. Note that the embeddings used for term suggestions are also trained on this data.