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Extremism and Social Media
Extremist groups are especially adept at hiding in plain sight by using language that differs only slightly from acceptable speech or employing thinly-veiled phrases that mask nefarious intent. Professor Libby Hemphill is developing a culturally sensitive adaptive language model to detect and effectively model the evolution of online extremist rhetoric in an effort to help advocacy groups view and anticipate this progression. Read more
Voices of Our Researchers
September 22, 2021
Voices of Our Researchers: Christopher Brooks
Voices of Our Researchers: Christopher Brooks
Privacy opt-out for college students may lead to inequities, writes Christopher Brooks, a MIDAS affiliated faculty member
August 23, 2021
Voices of Our Researchers: Birhanu Eshete
Voices of Our Researchers: Birhanu Eshete
Making machine learning trustworthy, a perspective from MIDAS-affiliated faculty member Birhanu Eshete
