The Dynamics of Hate Speech: Assessing Anti-Muslim Hate Speech in Norwegian Social Media

Yuri Kasahara, Daniel Thilo Schroeder, Anis Yazidi, Pedro G. Lind, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Oslo Metropolitan University, Department of Sustainable Communication Technologies, Department of Computer Science, Oslo Metropolitan University

Social Science Computer Review

Published online on January 31, 2026

Abstract

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This study investigates the dynamics of anti-Muslim hate speech within Norwegian social media during the period between 2010 and 2021. Using a dataset of more than one million comments from Twitter and Facebook, we developed a custom hate speech ...