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Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits (www.psypost.org)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

toxic people are toxic

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I unfollowed all the political subreddits I used to follow except stupidpol and red scare for exactly this reason.

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