Live Monitoring 4chan Discussion Threads

EasyChair Preprint 6123

Abstract

We have designed and implemented a web data extraction framework for live monitoring and archiving of discussions from the 4chan online community. Thanks to the deployment of an advanced version of the OxPath crawler, we were able to track the evolution of the /pol/ bilboard with higher level of precision.

Keyphrases: 4chan, Online conspiracy theories, Social Web

@booklet{EasyChair:6123,
  author    = {Ylli Prifti and Iacopo Pozzana and Alessandro Provetti},
  title     = {Live Monitoring 4chan Discussion Threads},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 6123},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2021}}