Georgia Tech Machine-Learning Tool Predicts Hate Speech Against Asian-Americans During COVID-19

Lisa Rayam | WABE

June 17th, 2020

School of Computational Science and Engineering assistant professor Srijan Kumar and his team started on Twitter in January, and analyzed 31 million social media posts for hate speech, from 7.8 million users globally.

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