🎉🎉 Our paper “A Virus Has No Religion”: Analyzing Islamophobia on Twitter During the COVID-19 Outbreak, accepted at @ACMHT 🎉🎉 Work with amazing students @mohit__30@ManvithReddy18@shradhasgl@reallysaurabh#IIITStudentsRock
Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2107.05104…
Findings 🧵
We study the rise of Islamophobia on Twitter during the pandemic. We make public the CoronaIslam dataset precog.iiitd.edu.in/resources.html with 410,990 tweets from Feb-May’20. 2000 tweets annotated as hateful and non-hateful for a binary Islamophobia-classifier