Beyond Hostility: Detecting Subtle and Overt Forms of Online Conflict with Multi-Objective Learning (opens in new tab)

Social networks have become a dominant and influential aspect of modern society, with numerous users engaging in observing, creating, and distributing content. The growth of content has led to user conflicts that include bullying, aggression, harassment, and threats. Consequently, recent research has been aimed at identifying and addressing these openly hostile forms of social conflict. However, in current studies, the less overtly hostile yet equally damaging types of conflict, including tea...