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

EasyChair Preprint no. 5998

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

@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 no. 5998},

  year = {EasyChair, 2021}}