Papers by Michael Carl Tschantz
Assessing Post Deletion in Sina Weibo: Multi-modal Classification of Hot Topics (D19-50)
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Meisam Navaki Arefi, Rajkumar Pandi, Michael Carl Tschantz, Jedidiah R. Crandall, King-wa Fu, Dahlia Qiu Shi, Miao Sha
| Challenge: | Weibo monitors and deletes posts to conform to government requirements . a recent study found that sentiment is the only indicator of censorship that is consistent across topics . |
| Approach: | They analyze a dataset of censored and uncensore censors on Weibo . they use deep learning, CNN localization, and NLP techniques to analyze the data . |
| Outcome: | The proposed analysis of censored and uncensoreded posts in Weibo shows that sentiment is the only indicator of a topic's censorship . censors can remove posts that are considered sensitive in three hours on average . |