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Linguistic data analysis of 3 billion Reddit comments produces a taxonomy of trolls

Tim Squirrell, a researcher at the Alt-Right Open Intelligence Initiative at the University of Amsterdam, used Google's BigQuery to analyze "every Reddit comment ever made—all 3 billion of them." He used the results to identify different alt-right groups and the language they use. From Quartz: Focusing on The_Donald, I used a script that lets you see which words are most likely to occur in the same comment.

 

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