Detoxing Democracy with SAMbot

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Online toxicity is a key reason that people are leaving politics, are not entering politics, or are steering clear of political conversations entirely. The Samara Centre of Democracy is attempting to quantify the online toxicity problem in Canada with SAMbot, a machine learning bot, to track toxic tweets received by Canadian political candidates.

Topic: Detoxing Democracy with SAMbot: Using Machine Learning to Measure Canada’s Online Political Conversation

Online toxicity is a key reason that people are leaving politics, are not entering politics, or are steering clear of political conversations entirely. The Samara Centre of Democracy is attempting to quantify the online toxicity problem in Canada with SAMbot, a machine learning bot, to track toxic tweets received by Canadian political candidates.

Speakers: Alex MacIsaac is the SAMbot Project Coordinator at the Samara Centre of Democracy. He’s a recent graduate from McMaster University’s Master of Public Policy in Digital Society program.