The NCRI is Dedicated to fighting hate and antisemitism on social media.
After the tragic shootings in Pittsburg, it has become clear that the world’s oldest hate, antisemitism, has found new ground in the world’s newest communication technology: Social media.
Social media makes our politics increasingly hostile, sensationalist and tribal; making hate easier to share with fewer personal consequences. The result: In this media landscape users mass-produce antisemitic images and new racist terms and share them faster than censorship can handle.
What We Do:
Our research, with featured articles in
Proves with hard hitting science, that the epidemic of online hate and antisemitism is growing out of control.
We examine over a hundred million comments and tens of millions of images in what is, to the best of our knowledge, the largest quantitative analysis on antisemitism ever done on social media. And the results are shocking:
Tracking hateful words, images and users, our group, the Network Contagion Research Institute or NCRI, (501-c3), reveals that hate and white supremacy are exploding on Alt-right networks. We suspect much the same on the extreme left. We find these infections leak onto Twitter, Reddit and the mainstream Web. We are bringing the counterpart to this hate by means of powerful big data tools to reveal and combat it– this is a new and modern way to protect Jewish life and civil safety in the age of social media.
Who We Are:
Savvas Danica @#i#e@ Joel Barry Jeremy
We are the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), a small group of expert scientists and engineers who use big data tools to expose hate and combat it across the Web. We penetrate both mainstream and extremist social networks to monitor and combat hate.
Jeremy Blackburn, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alabama in Burlington where he studies how hostile Web groups self-organize to spread hate.
Barry Bradlyn, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Illlinois in Urbana Champaign where he studies quantum states complex materials. He serves as NCRI’s main ammunition for mathematically modeling complex processes and statistics.
Danica Brozowski is a computer science major at FAU and chief coordinator for the NCRI
@#i#e@, (who wishes to remain anonymous due to our considerable security concerns) B.S. is the chief platform engineer and architect at one of the largest Web companies in Silicon Valley and platform architect for the NCRI.
Joel Finkelstein, Ph.D. is a recent graduate from the Princeton University department of Psychology and studies the neuroscience, social behavior and online extremism. He serves as the executive director of the NCRI.
Savvas Zanneto is a Ph.D. candidate at the Cyprus University of Technology where he models the spread of memes and studies social networks with deep learning applications.
Our aim is to quantify and reveal online hate, expose dangerous groups and antisemitism and create real-time capacities to fight it. But for us to be able to continue this important work we need your help.
How We Use Your Donations
Our goal is to raise a total of 80K USD, which will allow the NCRI to operate for a full year.
Thank you in advance and wish us luck!
The NCRI
