分析1.86亿条意大利语Telegram消息,揭示政治社区与仇恨言论的关联。
Mapping the Italian Telegram Ecosystem: Communities, Toxicity, and Hate Speech
- 通过网络分析与大模型识别意大利语社区的意识形态聚集
- 发现毒性言论普遍存在于高毒性强社群,且针对黑人、犹太人和同性恋者
- 揭示意国内部地域冲突导致的群体互害现象,具文化独特性
Telegram已成为政治讨论与另类媒体的重要空间,但其缺乏内容监管导致虚假信息、极端主义和毒性言论蔓延。以往研究多聚焦单一现象,缺乏对整体生态的系统理解。本文通过对2023年采集的18600万条消息(来自13,151个聊天群组)进行大规模分析,结合网络分析、大语言模型与毒性检测工具,考察意大利语社交圈中主题社群的形成、意识形态对齐及有害言论互动。结果表明存在显著的主题与意识形态同质性;部分社群中极左与极右话语在特定地缘政治议题上共存。此外,毒性并非局限于少数极端群组,而是在高毒性强社群中广泛常态化。意大利语讨论主要针对黑人群体、犹太人和同性恋者,且独立于具体话题。最后,发现明显的国内敌意趋势:意大利人常攻击其他意大利人,反映出源于历史分野的区域与次区域文化冲突。本研究首次系统绘制了意大利语Telegram生态图谱,为跨文化语境下在线毒性研究提供重要参考。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Telegram has become a major space for political discourse and alternative media. However, its lack of moderation allows misinformation, extremism, and toxicity to spread. While prior research focused on these particular phenomena or topics, these have mostly been examined separately, and a broader understanding of the Telegram ecosystem is still missing. In this work, we fill this gap by conducting a large-scale analysis of the Italian Telegram sphere, leveraging a dataset of 186 million messages from 13,151 chats collected in 2023. Using network analysis, Large Language Models, and toxicity detection tools, we examine how different thematic communities form, align ideologically, and engage in harmful discourse within the Italian cultural context. Results show strong thematic and ideological homophily. We also identify mixed ideological communities where far-left and far-right rhetoric coexist on particular geopolitical issues. Beyond political analysis, we find that toxicity, rather than being isolated in a few extreme chats, appears widely normalized within highly toxic communities. Moreover, we find that Italian discourse primarily targets Black people, Jews, and gay individuals independently of the topic. Finally, we uncover common trend of intra-national hostility, where Italians often attack other Italians, reflecting regional and intra-regional cultural conflicts that can be traced back to old historical divisions. This study provides the first large-scale mapping of the Italian Telegram ecosystem, offering insights into ideological interactions, toxicity, and identity-targets of hate and contributing to research on online toxicity across different cultural and linguistic contexts on Telegram.
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