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Fighting hate speech and misinformation online

Dr Srijan Kumar, assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in science, discusses with Nature Computational Science how he uses machine learning and data science to identify and mitigate malicious activities on online platforms, including misinformation and anti-Asian hate speech.

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Chirigati, F. Fighting hate speech and misinformation online. Nat Comput Sci 2, 281–283 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-022-00238-9

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