Cross-platform analysis of user comments in YouTube videos linked on Reddit's conspiracy theory forum

EasyChair Preprint 5998

2 pages•Date: July 3, 2021

Tomislav Duricic, Volker Seiser and Elisabeth Lex

Abstract

We perform a cross-platform analysis in which we study how does linking YouTube content on Reddit conspiracy forum impact language used in user comments on YouTube. Our findings show a slight change in user language in that it becomes more similar to language used on Reddit.

Keyphrases: Cross-platform study, NLP, conspiracies, language modeling, user comments

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BibTeX entry

BibTeX does not have the right entry for preprints. This is a hack for producing the correct reference:

@booklet{EasyChair:5998,
  author    = {Tomislav Duricic and Volker Seiser and Elisabeth Lex},
  title     = {Cross-platform analysis of user comments in YouTube videos linked on Reddit's conspiracy theory forum},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 5998},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2021}}

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