The Speed of Speech: How Interaction Velocity Fuels Toxicity in Political Livestreams

• In Event: Hostile Political Communication and Polarization

Brief Overview

Analyzing 116M Twitch chat messages in political streams, we show that rapid conversational flow heightens pseudo-anonymity, fostering toxic speech. Political salience amplifies toxicity too, while moderation appears to have little impact.

Author

• Taegyoon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology