Kumari, Gitanjali
Sinha, Anubhav
Ekbal, Asif
Chatterjee, Arindam
N, Vinutha B
Funding for this research was provided by:
Wipro AI, India
Article History
Received: 15 August 2023
Revised: 2 December 2023
Accepted: 4 December 2023
First Online: 6 January 2024
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The authors declare no conflict of interest about the work reported in this paper.
: 1. <b>Individual Privacy</b> To maintain the anonymity of any individual, we replaced the actual name with Person-XYZ throughout the paper. In addition, we also tried to anonymize the known faces presented in the visual part of the meme by masking them. We have masked these faces only to maintain the anonymity issues in the paper. During the implementation, we used the original image. 2. Misuse Potential: We suggest that researchers be aware that our dataset might be abused to filter the memes based on prejudices that may or may not be connected to demographics or other textual information. To prevent this from happening, human intervention with moderation would be essential. 3. <b>Intended Use:</b> Our dataset is presented to encourage research into studying political memes on the internet. We believe that it represents a valuable resource when used appropriately. 4. <b>Institutional Review Board Statement:</b> The resources we created for this study were from publicly available memes. We strictly adhered to the restrictions on data usage to avoid any infringement of copyright laws. Furthermore, our Institutional Review Board (IRB) evaluated and approved our study. We plan to make our code and data accessible for research purposes, subject to appropriate data agreement procedures, upon acceptance of our study. 5. <b>Availability of data:</b> The dataset generated during and analyzed during the current study is available from the corresponding author upon request.