Challenge: Existing methods to detect disagreements on social media platforms have focused on supplementing textual information with user network information, such as Twitter's following system, retweets and hashtags.
Approach: They propose a method which builds a graph of users and named entities and trains a Signed Graph Convolutional Network to detect disagreement between comment and reply posts.
Outcome: The proposed model builds a graph of users and named entities weighted by stance and trains a Signed Graph Convolutional Network (SGCN) to detect disagreement between comment and reply posts.

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