Detecting Bots to Distinguish Hate Speech on Social Media

Social Media Platforms were developed with the intention to bring people together and share their experiences. A social bot is typically engineered to pass as a human, often with the intent to manipulate online discussion. On the other hand they can be designed for doing malicious activities, such as spreading vast misinformation, fake ratings and review or show themselves as fraudulent. Due to rising use of social media activity in users, it has been the need of the hour to take down the bots that manipulate the users on the platform in the wrong direction. For this research work, Twitter tweets were mined by using Tweepy and used for analysis. These raw tweets were preprocessed to find the bots that spread hate speech on the platform through sentimental analysis of data.