FLAP Journal 2023 Journal Article
Dripping the Poison: The Instruments of Bias. A Qualitative Case Study of News Articles in Four Languages over Nine Years.
- Sviatlana Höhn
- Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
- Sjouke Mauw
- Dov M. Gabbay
Recent years have shown the power of dripping propaganda poison in minds of large populations with the goals to earn their support and to justify actions against particular groups or nations. These instruments of dripping the poison have been analysed in the literature on automated bias detection mainly from the lexical perspective. However, a more comprehensive perspective is needed for a more complete understanding and modelling of political biases present in this type of communication within such communities. To achieve our aim of a better perspective, we identified a case of such political propaganda that exerts influence and affects the general perception of one group by another one, which is general enough, well known enough but yet specific enough for our aim, namely Russia’s portraying Ukrainians as right radicals. We analysed the ∗ Supported by FNR Luxembourg INTER-SLANT 13320890 † Supported by EU COST Action LITHME CA19102