Phases of the methodology adopted to identify hate speech in U.S. midterm elections. Credit: Information Fusion (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2024.102459 In the lead-up to the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, Arizona’s chief election officer Katie Hobbs received far more harassing messages on Twitter than any of her counterparts in other states. More than 30% of all tweets directed at her, along with commentators on her posts, fell into the “most aggressive” category of attacks. That is a finding from researchers at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Universidad del Rosario in Colombia, and Read More