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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, Troll) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 18 2021, @04:11PM (3 children)
Those who accept the Woke narrative feel comfortable in it, because the media, government, and Fortune 500 companies are driving it. They don't feel the need to defend it, because repeating it ad nauseum is much easier. Goebbels did say that repeating a lie 10,000 times makes it indistinguishable from the truth, but that's not ringing any alarm bells with them right now.
If they were alert, they would be still be questioning Big Tech, the media, the government, the Fortune 500, and all the usual players as closely as they used to. They would be asking if it's a good thing for a couple of giant companies to have the power to silence voices they don't like. They would be asking if it's really a good thing for communities of color who have struggled with economic disadvantages in the US to have to compete with millions of illegal aliens who will work for less than minimum wage and displace them in the job market. They would ask why it's OK for the government to sic the FBI on parents who attend school board meetings.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @05:32PM (2 children)
*eyes be a rollin'*
There are solutions but you'll have to put the Fox News down before you stand a chance of doing more than regress into rambling rightwing talking points.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 18 2021, @08:52PM (1 child)
Oh yes. The magic solutions that are unknowable to any except the hyper-intelligent like you?
Can you write or argue in anything that is not a rambling, spastic woke talking point? I doubt it, because if you could bring it, you would.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 19 2021, @05:10AM
To be fair, he does write the occasionally semi-coherent blog. The one about Kant being the source of CRT was at least factually correct (he isn't). Of course the context was still the usual propaganda and bullshit.