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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: 5, Interesting) by julian on Thursday November 18 2021, @03:40AM (4 children)
I think this is broadly true. As a worker I reflexively say, fuck management. But mostly I can sign off on it because I think we already have perfectly good mechanisms for dispensing with racists, sexists, and bigots of all kinds. You (meaning all of us) shame them publicly when they attempt to spread their trash ideas, you refuse to socialize or do business with them, and--crucially--you stop doing all of these things the moment someone changes their policies or behavior.
This isn't a religion and it's not overzealous. It's just what we've always done. If conservatives want to actually conserve something from our past that's actually worth keeping around they could start with the concept of progressive change.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @04:27AM (2 children)
ICFI/SEP/IWA-RFC: UK choreographer Liam Scarlett’s suicide after #MeToo sexual misconduct allegations [wsws.org]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @03:20PM (1 child)
You say poor victim, I say collateral damage. Potato, tomato. Let's all just agree on enemy combatant.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 19 2021, @02:10AM
Parent AC touched me inappropriately! On top of it, parent AC is a fan of SpaceX, a homosexual, and has been seen near the cuddle puddle couch.
I demand that his bank close his account!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 18 2021, @06:21PM
The problem is they definite you using your own freedoms in a way they disagree with as infringing on their freedoms.
So for them "Freedom of Speech" means saying whatever they fuck they want, wherever the fuck they want and they can FORCE you to let them use your bullhorn and soapbox.