Shiri Dori-Hacohen

Restoring Healthy Online Discourse by Detecting and Reducing Controversy, Misinformation, and Toxicity Online

2021

Healthy online discourse is becoming less and less accessible beneath the growing noise of controversy, mis- and dis-information, and toxic speech. While IR is crucial in detecting harmful speech, researchers must work across disciplines to …

Information Ecosystem Threats in Minoritized Communities

2022 · Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Journalists, fact-checkers, academics, and community media are overwhelmed in their attempts to support communities suffering from gender-, race- and ethnicity-targeted information ecosystem threats, including but not limited to misinformation, hate speech, weaponized controversy and online-to-offline …