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This sounds like the textbook definition of a collider. Meaning that being toxic is the likely “root cause” and that toxic people are more likely to engage in political discourse (because it’s likely going to be toxic anyways? Idk) and they are more likely to comment toxic stuff in general.

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idiocracy@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
it’s not only that, remember the point of news articles is to make engagement too and one tactic is to fuel people with rage, even by the means of fake news, and given the internet anonymity, u get anger fueled keyboard warriors

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prex@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I haven’t heard of a collider in that context before. Could you mean a confounder?

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Fades@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Good points, add to that troll farms and bots

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