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> classify user generated content as political or not is non-trivial. There's probably a set of 50 or so keyword combinations, plus the names of current and fo
by tenebrisalietum 6y ago
> classify user generated content as political or not is non-trivial.
There's probably a set of 50 or so keyword combinations, plus the names of current and former politicians and common misspellings, that would cover 90% of cases.
- jjice 6y agoIf that's the route we want to take, I think a browser extension would work just fine. Loop over all divs that represent tweets, if contains any key words, delete div. Rise and repeat with other websites. I wonder if a general black list exists for various websites already.
- tenebrisalietum 6y agoWon't work on iPhones.
- bhaavan 6y ago- He was playing poker, with a pair on the table, but his trump card was an ace. - I refuse to pay this "Bill". - That looks like an Obama suit. Are these political statements? It's naive to make such a claim that a whitelist of word is sufficient. The "facebook is censoring me" gang will eat you up in a jiffy. Even extremely complex models will fail this test.
- tenebrisalietum 6y agoList A: support, vote, protest, defend, military, troops, economy, country, taxes, rights, government, children, child, responsibility, leader List B: obama, pelosi, clinton, trump, pence, mitch, reagan, bush, maga, antifa, president, congress, representative, democrat, republican If a comment has a word from list A and list B, it's political. Using this simple scheme on Facebook would be something I would do if possible.