University of Washington-Tacoma Professors Developing a Social Media Tool to Detect Anti-Immigrant Tweets

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Two professors at the University of Washington-Tacoma are developing a social media tool on Twitter to detect anti-immigrant or misogynistic tweets. The professors, Martine De Cock and Anderson Nascimento, will be heading the development and will involve computer science students in this project.