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In this paper, we investigate the phenomenon of homophily in hate speech generation on Twitter, aiming to deepen our understanding of online hate dynamics. Given the vast amount of information available on Twitter, computing familiarity and similarity–essential for discovering homophily–poses significant challenges. To address this, we introduce no...
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