A new study links partisan activity on the Internet to widespread online toxicity, revealing that politically-engaged users exhibit uncivil behavior even in non-political discussions. The findings are based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of comments from over 6.3 million Reddit users.

Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic – even in non-political subreddits::A new study links partisan activity on the Internet to widespread online toxicity, revealing that politically-engaged users exhibit uncivil behavior even in non-political discussions. The findings are based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of comments from over 6.3 million Reddit users.

  • Djinn@lemm.eeEnglish
    221·
    10 months ago

    If you don’t understand one of those positions is objectively bad then that says a whole lot about you.

      • Djinn@lemm.eeEnglish
        81·
        10 months ago

        Aha! You are bad because of the way you think. The classic.

        Yes, dumb too.