arXiv AI

Automatic Detection of Deaths from Social Networking Sites

arXiv:2608. 05183v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This dissertation analysed and discussed the differences in linguistic characteristics between pre-mortem and post-mortem social media content, and reported machine learning (ML) classifiers that achieved high performance in automatically detecting deaths of social networking site users from posts associated with their profiles.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

AI Application Gives Users Real-Time Feedback on the Level of Peace in the Social Media Videos They Watch

arXiv:2601. 05232v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most people now get their news from videos on social media, such as YouTube and Facebook, rather than through curated journalism.

By P. Gilda (Columbia University), P. Dungarwal (Columbia University), A. Thongkham (Columbia University), E. T. Ajayi (St John's University), S. Choudhary (Columbia University), T. M. Terol (Columbia University), C. Lam (Columbia University), J. P. Araujo (Columbia University), M. McFadyen-Mungalln (Columbia University), L. S. Liebovitch (Columbia University), P. T. Coleman (Columbia University), H. West (Columbia University), K. Sieck (Toyota Research Institute), S. Carter (Toyota Research Institute)
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 7

Multilingual Models for Check-Worthy Social Media Posts Detection

The paper reports a comprehensive study of transformer-based NLP models for detecting check-worthy social media posts, covering data collection, preprocessing, architecture selection, fine‑tuning, testing, and implementation. It focuses on multilingual models that can process English and low‑resource languages such as Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, Polish, Czech, and Slovak, and compares their performance to state‑of‑the‑art baselines. The work introduces multi‑label multilingual classifiers that simultaneously identify harmful content and posts containing verifiable factual claims efficiently.

By Sebastian Kula
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

Agentic Detection of Online Conspiracies

The paper presents an agentic framework for detecting conspiratorial content in social media by inferring the speaker’s intent rather than merely identifying explicit claims. It leverages social context and adaptive tool use, demonstrating superior performance over text-only and non-agentic models on a large Hebrew tweet dataset spanning election cycles and the COVID pandemic. The study highlights the importance of context-aware, reasoning-driven approaches for accurate conspiracy detection.

By Lior Biton, Oren Tsur
arXiv AI
Sep 25

An Explainable DistilBERT-BiLSTM-Attention Framework for Binary and Multi-Class Hate Speech Detection

The paper presents an explainable hate‑speech detection framework that combines DistilBERT embeddings, a Bi‑LSTM network, and an attention mechanism to capture contextual and sequential information. It uses LIME to highlight influential text features, providing transparency in predictions. Evaluated on two benchmark datasets for both binary and multi‑class tasks, the model achieves F1‑scores of 96.78%–99.53% for binary classification and 94.99%–97.00% for multi‑class classification, outperforming existing baselines.

By Rameesha Zia, Muhammad Shahid Iqbal Malik
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Towards Safer Social Media Platforms: Scalable and Performant Few-Shot Harmful Content Moderation Using Large Language Models

The paper presents a scalable approach to harmful content moderation on social media by leveraging large language models (LLMs) for few-shot, in-context learning. Experiments across multiple LLMs show that this method outperforms proprietary baselines such as Perspective and OpenAI Moderation, as well as prior few-shot learning techniques, in detecting harmful content. The study also explores the addition of visual cues like video thumbnails to assess multimodal improvements, highlighting the advantages of LLM-based moderation for dynamic and large-scale content filtering.

By Akash Bonagiri, Lucen Li, Rajvardhan Oak, Zeerak Babar, Magdalena Wojcieszak, Anshuman Chhabra