What do Twitter comments tell about news article bias? Assessing the impact of news article bias on its perception on Twitter

Timo Spinde, Elisabeth Richter, Martin Wessel, Juhi Kulshrestha, Karsten Donnay

Abstract: Highlights•Creation of a news article dataset with reliable media bias measurements.•Sentiment and hate speech classification of associated tweets/retweets/comments.•Analysis of the relation between news article bias and users’ reactions to these articles on Twitter.•Evidence showing that Twitter reactions to biased articles are significantly more hateful.