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Politically engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic, even in non-political subreddits

www.psypost.org 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.

Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits
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