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Engaging with the comments on Facebook posts about news articles makes you a more toxic person, an analysis of nearly 6.5 million comments suggests.
Jason Reifler at the University of Exeter, UK, and his colleagues gathered the comments from 11,305 Facebook posts published by 33 news outlets during October 2018. They then asked a polling company to survey 2200 people in the US for a nationally representative sample.
The research aimed to see if online comment sections played a role in increasing toxicity both online and off. “If we see bad behaviour online, …
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