Subreddits study highlights the hidden ways that hate speech spreads
Subreddits study highlights the hidden ways that hate speech spreads
- April 4, 2025
- Jeffrey Kopstein, political science, Phys.org, April 4, 2025
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University of California, Irvine political science professor Jeffrey Kopstein dove deeply into two deplatformed subreddits … finding that while overtly antisemitic posts were limited to a small fraction of community members, implicit content could be traced to more than a third of the groups' users. … "This is a dangerous language game that can lead to escalation, dehumanization, and desensitization that can turn rhetoric into open intergroup contempt and to discriminatory views and norms."
For the full story, please visit https://phys.org/news/2025-04-subreddits-highlights-hidden-ways-speech.html#google_vignette.
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