D5.4 Analysis of the role of contextual factors and dynamics of attitudes on social media, especially hate speech

Measuring attitudes towards migration is usually done with surveys, which are expensive to conduct and can thus be afforded infrequently. In this sense, social media have proved to be one of the most valuable sources for measuring public attitudes. This report focuses on analysing the social media platform Twitter to quantify and study public attitudes towards migration and to identify different factors that could be probable causes of these attitudes. To this end, we deploy advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods based on knowledge bases and neural networks (detailed later on) for analysing these public attitudes on Twitte