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Hate more common in early article comments, analysis finds

Comments written quickly after an article was published were more likely to contain hate and threats than those posted later. This is shown by a time analysis conducted by researchers at the University of Gothenburg of 38 million reader comments on The Guardian's website. The research is published i...

Hate more common in early article comments, analysis finds
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Comments written quickly after an article was published were more likely to contain hate and threats than those posted later. This is shown by a time analysis conducted by researchers at the University of Gothenburg of 38 million reader comments on The Guardian's website. The research is published in the journal New Media & Society.

Originally published at Phys.org

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