What are we looking for here?
Hateful tweets in this case are tweets that attack someone because of their race, religion, gender, or nationality.
There are four different ways to analyze this tweet to decide if it's hateful.
- Someone replies with a hateful response that's hateful. This will generally appear below the original tweet.
- Someone retweets a tweet along with a hateful comment. This comment will generally appear above the original tweet.
- Someone tweets at a person in a hateful manner. The tweet may start with @username where the username is the target of the hateful tweet.
- Someone uses hateful language to talk about someone without specifically using the @username link to include them in the conversation.
- Someone responds jokingly to a hateful tweet in a conversation that tags a target of hate. If the tweet
if piling onto the hateful tweet it also qualifies as being hateful even if the content of the tweet is benign
when viewed out of context.