Who are the haters? A corpus-based demographic analysis of authors of hate speech.

Introduction: We examine the profiles of hate speech authors in a multilingual dataset of Facebook reactions to news posts discussing topics related to migrants and the LGBT+ community. The included languages are English, Dutch, Slovenian, and Croatian.

Methods: First, all utterances were manually annotated as hateful or acceptable speech.

Interlocutors' Age Impacts Teenagers' Online Writing Style: Accommodation in Intra- and Intergenerational Online Conversations.

The present study examines how teenagers adapt their language use to that of their conversation partner (i.e., the linguistic phenomenon of accommodation) in interactions with peers (intragenerational communication) and with older interlocutors (intergenerational communication).