New York, Sep 2 : As more incidents of anti-Hinduism occur across the US Artificial Intelligence is being used to monitor Hinduphobic tweets.The results are available in live-time.
The results are collected and released in monthly reports according to Ramesh Rao, the editor of India Facts, a US-based publication.Hindumisia.
ai collects Hindu-related Twitter tweets and examines them for Hinduphobic content and makes them available on the internet as a real-time gauge of attitudes against Hinduism and other religions as well as those associated with the religion.
Tweets are graded based on their “anti-Hindu intensity” as “moderate”, “severe” or “toxic”.
For instance, during the 24 hours of Wednesday, Hindumisia found 1,358 tweets it classified as anti-Hindu, and in all of August, it found 45,057 tweets that were similar, of which, it declared, in their “anti-Hindu intensity” 69 percent were “toxic”, 25.7 per percent “severe” and 5.4 percent “moderate”.
It also examines tweets sent by readers in an open manner and denies the tweets as “not Hindumisic” those that do not meet its strict standards.
“It is time to conduct this kind of reporting in an organized and consistent way so that we can expose to the world that part of the world of social media that is filled with the hatred of Hindus as well as Hinduism,” said Rao who is the publication that produces the monthly reports, partnering with Hindumisia for the publication of monthly reports.
He stated that Hindumisia has been screened for false positives, and its creators “are now confident in the authenticity, reliability and the validity of the data gathered and are now able to publish of the reports every month”.
Ramsundar Lakshminarayanan, a Chicago-based IT executive from Chicago with expertise in Data Analytics, who created the app for monitoring Hinduphobia on Twitter and Twitter, stated, “The next step in this process is to make use of the AI model to analyze information from different social media sites.”
He also said “more sophisticated analysis of networks” is required “to be able to understand how Hinduphobic posts or tweets are shared with groups all over the globe and who could be involved in propagating this hatred of Hindus as well as Hinduism”.
“Much of this hate might be facilitated if it is not embraced, either insidiously, or indirectly by mainstream media and certain scholars is significant reason to be concerned.India Facts will continue to expose such attitudes and message,” Rao said.
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