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Original Articles

Mapping Twitter hate speech towards social and sexual minorities: a lexicon-based approach to semantic content analysis

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Pages 711-721 | Received 20 Jan 2018, Accepted 10 Apr 2019, Published online: 22 Apr 2019

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