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Social media content classification and community detection using deep learning and graph analytics

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  • Ali, Mohsan
  • Hassan, Mehdi
  • Kifayat, Kashif
  • Kim, Jin Young
  • Hakak, Saqib
  • Khan, Muhammad Khurram

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Social cybermedia has greatly changed the world’s perspective on information sharing and propagation. These platforms build virtual user communities in the form of followings or followers that can spread positive or negative content. These virtual communities play a vital role in the spread of hate content, which may create a severe law-and-order situation and social unrest in any country. Hate content can include offensive, anti-state, anti-religion, sexist, and racist posts. Classifying such content and identifying influential individuals who participate in these communities are challenging tasks for law enforcement agencies. This study proposes novel deep learning and graph-based approaches to identifying hate content, followed by approaches to detecting communities and exploring social media to detect hate content. Twitter is used as a case study, and tweets are extracted and annotated by linguistic experts to develop a dataset for experimentation and validation. The proposed customized LSTM-GRU model is used to classify hate content into six categories. The developed model offers an accuracy of 98.14% on the obtained dataset. The Girvan–Newman algorithm is employed for Twitter community detection and successfully identifies the most influential individuals. Moreover, the proposed approach precisely detects intraclass communities and highly influential persons. The developed model effectively identifies hate tweets and communities and can be used to monitor social media to identify any potential threat of unrest.

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  • Ali, Mohsan & Hassan, Mehdi & Kifayat, Kashif & Kim, Jin Young & Hakak, Saqib & Khan, Muhammad Khurram, 2023. "Social media content classification and community detection using deep learning and graph analytics," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 188(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:188:y:2023:i:c:s0040162522007739
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122252
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