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The article critiques the quality of Hacker News comments, highlighting issues like misinformation and meanness while acknowledging the value of well-informed contributions from notable users.
Introduces Cohesion-6K, a manually and ChatGPT-assisted annotated dataset of 6,000 Arabic Facebook posts about the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, spanning conflict to cohesion categories. Analysis shows conflict-oriented posts receive 2-4x more engagement than resolution-oriented ones.
This paper uses large language models to analyze persuasion dynamics and polarization in Reddit's r/ChangeMyView, finding that empathetic alignment increases belief change while frontal refutation diminishes it.
This paper measures the semantic structure and evolution of conspiracy theories using 169.9M Reddit comments from r/politics (2012-2022), introducing the concept of "semantic objects" bounded by semantic neighborhoods to track how conspiracy theory meanings change over time beyond simple keyword-based approaches.