Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

Online social media platforms have become central to communication and information exchange, however, they also serve as fertile ground for hate speech, offensive language, and bullying targeting individuals and communities. Such content undermines online safety and inclusion, underscoring the ne...

Online polarization poses a growing challenge for democratic discourse, yet most computational social science research remains monolingual, culturally narrow, or event-specific. We introduce POLAR, a multilingual, multicultural, and multi-event dataset with over 110K instances in 22 languages dra...