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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @09:14AM (1 child)
Shocking no one at all the unhinged lunacy of repugnicans gets voted down. Anyone using woke as an insult just shows how dumb and or hate filled they are. What are you trying to say? Caring about inequality and demanding justice is bad now? I realize you lot get lied to all the time, but still how can you not see through the lies after a short time? Must be why they are constantly hopping to new issues, keep conservatives constantly worried about new 'threats' otherwise after a decade of the same liberal monsters even boomers would realize their media is full of shit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @10:46AM
The problem with the term woke is the same as any other broad brush grouping. It's inevitably overbroad, and rather than address the specific issue in context when it happens (individual detailed cases of racism, particularly institutional), we use the term woke and discard all nuance.
No matter how good your argument is, virtue signaling "woke" or "non-woke" is detrimental to the discussion.