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

Fri, April 24, 5:10 to 6:40pm CDT (5:10 to 6:40pm CDT), TBA

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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.

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