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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: 2) by Mykl on Thursday November 18 2021, @11:16PM (1 child)
Nobody's perfect, and I agree that mistakes have been made at the NYT, and all other new outlets/sources/aggregators including the Associated Press, Reporters without Borders etc. We're all human.
It's important to look at intent when examining news outlets though. For example:
Some of these outlets have 'good' intentions, others not so much. I'm not going to stop reading a particular outlet because a few of their articles have been questionable, provided their overall mission and output remain worthwhile.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday November 20 2021, @03:06AM
Yes, we are all human. But that's not what the NYT and their confederates say. They arrogate to themselves the absolute truth and fact in the world. Maybe it once was true, but after all I have cited it is not true anymore; so they should enjoy no advantage from the redolence of what they once were.
Read Glenn Greenwald. Read Matt Taibbi. Read Julian Assange. They all risked their lives and careers to report on what the elites are doing. Glenn and Matt are still out there, thank goodness, but we can all see what has been done to Julian to know the cost of truth and fact in today's world.
If your own sacred cows are not in danger of BBQ, then you're not getting anything close to the truth. Mark this, and reflect. Human freedom has not been in this much danger for a century.
Washington DC delenda est.