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.

  • homicidalrobot@lemm.eeEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER: youtube reports it annually earns ~14.07 B from ad revenue and over 20B from subscriptions across youtube and youtube music. You are guessing and passing it off as “fact, not opinion”. Ads make youtube almost half as much as the ungodly amount of money they make, and google as a whole could support youtube without ads just fine, they would just make less money (Google’s throughput is extremely negative, most of their money is not put back into the company).

    Your perspective sucks and your opinions are based on misinformation and guesswork.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Imagine using as your argument “no only half of their money comes from ads,” lol

      Dude a company can’t just lose half their revenue. Be serious.

      • Franklin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        Still isn’t the legal definition of theft. It can morally be in your opinion

        • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

          That’s because we’re discussing ad blockers in this chain