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Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits (www.psypost.org)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] 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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[–] 5 points 2 years ago*

Counterpoint: Violently unhinged MAGAts who literally make worshipping Trump and "owning the libz" their entire personality.

I'm not saying you're not correct (you are), but I'm saying there's other types of political toxicity out there.

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