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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: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @12:14PM
You have your shit people, i have my shit people, and there is one waterhole.
And we have the rules of engagement.
If there were more waterholes, nobody would give a shit.
Also, what is a waterhole varies between groups and situations.
Some people consider the internet as a waterhole, and they engage the "others" on it.
They try to take away the internet and the freedom to express non-politically-correct opinions by labeling it hate speech.
In the arsenal of this particular group is also the misuse of diversity.
As example, diversity today is a product of 2 factors:
1. biological "channel separation": if u have a woman, how far away is the offspring from a "woman"? The time did grind away the alphas and others male types, and a lot of men today are female entities trapped in a male body. Hence u have homosexuality.
2. a lot of chemicals disturb biology and hormones, thus creating more diversity.
This is science. This should be easy to live with.
But now, some use the diversity to ruin the day of everyone who is not interested in the topic, and use it to induce unwanted impressions of bestiality and other disturbing stuff, and thus wining the war by inducing extreme disgust that leads to antisocial behavior in the victim.
I am very much against diversity, cuz i cant get away from the actual fucking topic, even if i do not care what people do in their free time, off work.
-zug