Identification of Misogynistic Accounts on Twitter through Graph Convolutional Networks

Misogyny is the hatred, dislike, and mistrust towards women simply because of their gender, accompanied by ingrained prejudice against them. Our study focuses on producers of misogyny on social media platforms, specifically examining content shared in Italian on Twitter. Using a substantial collection of Italian tweets, we analyse textual and relational data from the friend/follower network to classify Twitter accounts based on a binary misogyny scheme. We employ Graph Convolutional Networks to achieve this