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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: 0, Troll) by Mockingbird on Thursday November 18 2021, @05:40AM (2 children)
Andrew Brietbart is dead. Steve Bannon is indicted. Milo Yankmyjunkalot is no longer gay. It's over, alt-right. It was a good run, but it is over. Time to reconsider your life, and adopt a sustainable political philosophy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @03:27PM
Join the Russian troll farms that inspired them. Hey at least Brexit was a success, right?! And Trump must be 50-50 for becoming the Great Dictator in Chief, at least until the train wreck finally comes to a halt and people will finally say... OMG it's a train wreck.
(Score: 2) by Captival on Friday November 19 2021, @03:32AM
Every Libtard on planet earth uses this exact same tactic and it never works.