Tag: Comment sections & toxicity
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New leader, new crowd: what happened to Labour’s Facebook comments under Corbyn
234,579 comments on Labour’s Facebook page, the same weeks of 2015 and 2016. Under Corbyn the comment section got slightly less toxic, a partly new crowd turned up, and the argument moved from UKIP to Europe.
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One city, two comment sections: Sadiq Khan’s and Zac Goldsmith’s Facebook comments in 2016
In the 2016 London mayoral race, Sadiq Khan’s and Zac Goldsmith’s Facebook comment sections were about equally toxic. The difference was in the kind of hostility, and in what an automated classifier gets wrong about it.
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Setting the tone or supplying the words? What happened beneath Trump’s Facebook posts
When Trump’s Facebook posts attacked an opponent, the comments beneath them got nastier and busier. But much of the extra nastiness was his audience using the same kind of words he did. Posts about Hillary Clinton were the exception.
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The crowd in the comments: who spoke, how hostile it got and what got liked on Trump’s and Clinton’s Facebook pages
I collected 5.3 million comments from Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s Facebook pages in 2016. About one in ten was toxic, week after week. The busiest commenters were not the worst, nastiness did not win likes, and on the same day both candidates’ comment sections were equally toxic.
