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.

  • Surreal@programming.devEnglish
    61·
    11 months ago

    Open-minded people learn and change their opinion when presented with facts and discussions

      • KichaeEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        The person one responds to isn’t always the audience for the response.

    • aidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      When people are toxic to dissenters online they don’t think they’re open minded people