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From a recent Science Reports paper:
Online debates are often characterised by extreme polarisation and heated discussions among users. The presence of hate speech online is becoming increasingly problematic, making necessary the development of appropriate countermeasures. In this work, we perform hate speech detection on a corpus of more than one million comments on YouTube videos through a machine learning model, trained and fine-tuned on a large set of hand-annotated data.
Our analysis shows that there is no evidence of the presence of "pure haters", meant as active users posting exclusively hateful comments. Moreover, coherently with the echo chamber hypothesis, we find that users skewed towards one of the two categories of video channels (questionable, reliable) are more prone to use inappropriate, violent, or hateful language within their opponents' community.
Interestingly, users loyal to reliable sources use on average a more toxic language than their counterpart. Finally, we find that the overall toxicity of the discussion increases with its length, measured both in terms of the number of comments and time. Our results show that, coherently with Godwin's law, online debates tend to degenerate towards increasingly toxic exchanges of views.
Journal Reference:
M. Cinelli, A. Pelicon, I. Mozetič, et al. Dynamics of online hate and misinformation. [open] Sci Rep 11, 22083 (2021).
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-01487-w
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @02:27AM (7 children)
Are you Runaway1956, pretending to not be Runaway1956? Gawd, I hate it when he does that! I hate him so much. I hate him in a box, I hate him with a fox. I hate him with a gun, I hate him 'cause he's dumb. I hate him quite impeccably, I hate him for what he's done to she. I hate him for his traitorous behavior, I hate him for wanting to give Trump a wavier. I hate him for what he is, and hate him all up in his. I really hate that Runaway man, I really do, Sam I Am!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @02:51AM (5 children)
Are you a douche? Or are you just pretending to be a douche?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @03:42AM (4 children)
> Are you a douche?
No, he's a Suess. Here, this nice lady will read it to you--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdotPwVJYzs [youtube.com]
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @07:07AM (3 children)
I hate Runaway. Hate him in Arkansas, hate him in Bernaise sauce. Hate him with a Hillbilly yell, hate him when he burns in hell. Hate Runaway when the Republicans win Arkansas, hate him when Gosar beheads Asa Hutchinson. Hate the Runaway when he gets vaxxed, hate Runaway when he is not taxed. Hate the Runaway in the groin, hate him when he is stupid enough to promote bitcoin! Hate Runaway when he claims self-defense, and I have shoot the motherfucker down like a dog in the street because his is the one who caused the choice in the first place. Hate that Runaway.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @08:08AM (2 children)
I also hate Runaway1956. But I am not as skilled at rhymes! I hate him a bunch, I hate him with a bundle of sticks wrapped around the handle of an axe. I hate him with an eagle, and all other carrion feeding large birds. I hate him under sub rosa, and I hate him with a carcinoma. This Runaway is not my friend, he is the very opposite end. I hate him when he IRCs, I hate when he has to pee. He is the very model of a modern redneck asshole, the antithesis of a major-general. Hate him when he betrays his country, hate him when he suck on Carlsonty.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @08:35AM (1 child)
I hate Runaway1956, too, but I do not want to be Spam modded just for saying so! What ever happened to the SoylentNews of Freeze Peaches? We used to be able to hate freely, directing invective at the Runaway with joyful abandon, and often to the point! But now, now the mod-gangs of censorship are upon us. They will not let us freely hate the Runaway. Who runs this SockPuppet Army of the Alt-right? Bruce Anderson? Richard Spencer? Big Bird? I hate Runaway1956, for what he makes me realize about much of may family. And Thanksgiving is nigh.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @05:22PM
Wow mod abuse! I'm guessing the admins will fix this and ban the guilty account sometime between hell freezing over and the heat death of the universe.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @03:04AM
Meds.