Science Fear is more effective than hate

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Fear is more effective than hate​

Negative emotions spread particularly quickly via social networks, but there are gradations here, too: According to a new study, fear spreads faster than hate.​

For the study (archive), a U.S. team analyzed 400,000 posts intended to spread fear and 700,000 hate speech posts on the social network "Gab." "Gab" was chosen because posts with hateful language are not removed due to the loose moderation, unlike other platforms. The structure of "Gab" is reminiscent of Twitter: text posts with a length of up to 3,000 characters can be posted. These posts can be shared, and it is possible to mention other users, thus speeding up dissemination. "Gab" was used in 2021 to plan the storming of the U.S. Capitol. The study also included data from Twitter. Moderation there is stricter; posts that violate the guidelines are removed.

Fear speech vs. hate speech
The goal of "fear speech" is to spread fear of certain minorities - for example, by publishing statements based on false allegations. In addition, these posts often include links to websites that contain further misinformation, up to and including conspiracy theories. Posts with fear speech are more often liked and shared on "Gab" than hate speech posts. In addition, users who post a lot of content with the aim of spreading fear usually have more followers than those who frequently post hateful posts. People who post "fear speech" often mention other users in it. People who spread hate speech on the platform rarely do so.

Under the radar
"Fear speech" also occurs on other social networks like Facebook and Twitter in addition to "Gab." While hate speech is usually removed quickly and effectively there with moderation systems, however, these systems do not recognize fear speech. This is because these posts often refrain from using derogatory language. In addition, they are usually more subtle, which is why the algorithms of the moderation systems cannot distinguish fear speech posts from normal posts. According to the research team, it is necessary to take measures against the spread of "fear speech" in social media because fear, just like hate, can lead to radicalization.
Georg Binder, Ö1 Science​

Source (German)

 

[Meat Target]

Call it whatever your doublethinking NPC programming likes. It's not because we are cowards or hate people for no reason. It is a rational aversion to danger based on observation of patterns.

The actions of shitlibs and their pets have radicalized me more than Trump, Tucker, 4chan, or Kiwi Farms ever could have.

 

[FuckedOffToff]

If the truth inspires fear, and that fear endangers their liberal, progressive utopian paradise, then the truth has to be stopped.
It's another angle to attack speech. To censor the internet. It's so tiresome.
I expect "fear speech" to become as ubiquitous as "stochastic terrorism" at some point, it's like these people get scripts with their talking points on them.

 

[Ishtar]

I like how their definition of fear speech is just "something spooky about minorities, especially fake shit" - when you have IRL examples of little girls getting smeared into the fucking pavement by muslim terrorists with zero fabrication involved.

Obviously pointing out minority violence, economic damage, and the immediately obvious and demonstrable physical degradation and decay of every major city in the west does a better job convincing people to be more conservative than posting the 'total nigger death' copypasta.

I didn't read the actual article, but I found it notable even in the abstract how vague they were in their descriptions.

If the truth inspires fear, and that fear endangers their liberal, progressive utopian paradise, then the truth has to be stopped.
It's another angle to attack speech. To censor the internet. It's so tiresome.
I expect "fear speech" to become as ubiquitous as "stochastic terrorism" at some point, it's like these people get scripts with their talking points on them.

There were at least two or three other "studies" about how to most effectively censor the internet. Anything that undermines the multiculturalist project is going to be subject to censor.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

The purpose of this is to "explain" that those evil conservative nazis are spreading lies about minorities so we fear them and that is causing all the hate.

Hence, we need to censor those "lies" so people won't fear walking alone in a black neighborhood or a muslim no-go zone. Why would you "fear" going there, bigot?

 

[Null]

I didn't read the actual article

everyone who does this is a retard

the article is 3 paragraphs long, it wouldn't be acceptable for an elementary school 5th grade expository essay, and people are still like "i'm sure 100% of the information i need is found in the headline"

 

[heathercho]

Fear speech vs. hate speech
The goal of "fear speech" is to spread fear of certain minorities - for example, by publishing statements based on false allegations. In addition, these posts often include links to websites that contain further misinformation, up to and including conspiracy theories. Posts with fear speech are more often liked and shared on "Gab" than hate speech posts. In addition, users who post a lot of content with the aim of spreading fear usually have more followers than those who frequently post hateful posts. People who post "fear speech" often mention other users in it. People who spread hate speech on the platform rarely do so.

What a word salad.
Who decides what allegations are false and true?

 

[Florch]

Modern sociology is a meme.

Social Science (/Psychological Science) -

If they have to ADD science to the title -
IT IS NOT A SCIENCE

 

[Ishtar]

everyone who does this is a retard

the article is 3 paragraphs long, it wouldn't be acceptable for an elementary school 5th grade expository essay, and people are still like "i'm sure 100% of the information i need is found in the headline"

I DID read the abstract. That's why they exist, so people can get the gist of a paper if they don't have access to a specific database.

(Or wait, maybe I did read the article, I don't know, I'm not reading it again).

What a word salad.
Who decides what allegations are false and true?

What they're referring to is any news or information that produces a natural response of fear or concern. Whether that be troons "teaching" your kids or niggers robbing a Walgreens. If it involves sacred minority cows and makes people more sympathetic to RW politics then its something that must be censored.

 

[Hex Cat]

Remember goyim it's ok to say literally every single Catholic priest is a pedophile but if you say LGBT are pedophiles and should be around kids your heckin spreading fear speecherino.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

If they have to ADD science to the title -
IT IS NOT A SCIENCE

So rocket science isn't a science?



But seriously, if it's not repeatable and lacks a predictive model, it can't qualify as a science.

 

[Matt Damon]

What a word salad.
Who decides what allegations are false and true?

The people with critical consciousness, of course. According to their own precepts, they've attained a higher level of being than everyone else and that automatically makes them qualified to make decisions for you.

The amount of solipsism inherent to these ideologies is hard to grasp when you've been socialized and lived your whole life as a normal human being.

 

[The Lawgiver]

fear and hate are linked, which is why a "phobia" is by definition "an irrational fear/hatred" . However in a way all emotions are somewhat linked. This however is proposing something that will definitely not be used to stop the constant screams of "THESE PEOPLE ARE SECRETLY MEMBER OF BAD POLITICAL GROUP THAT WILL KILL YOU!!!! THEY WILL KILL ALL MINORITIES AND KILL YOU!!!"
I fucking watched a few friends start doing that shit a while back before they either cut me off over dumb shit they proceeded to treat like I was some right wing extremist that had fallen for some "grift" and was an antivaxxer despite there being literally no fucking shit like that in our history, or got banned from everywhere when they spoiled hogwarts legacy's ending not for shitlord shitpost purposes but for that fucking stupid "activist" reasons. They would not fucking shut the hell up about jk fucking rowling secretly wanting to kill all minorities or some shit once they turned into these vapid ass fake people.

I'm so tired of seeing this fake world keep escalating. I'm tired of being fucking treated by people on both side of this stupid fucking fake ass left right left thing like i'm the other side and falling for some fucking grift where it's gonna result in everyone dying. To bring up a corny fucking overplayed media comparison it's like the one scene in watchmen with the fucking naked smurf of a man sitting on a rock talking about how he's just fed up with everything. The context is completely fucking different but that's more or less the general vibe of how I feel.

 

[Shidoen]

An act of violence is weaker out of fear than out of hate

 

[Higgs Bonbon]

Looking at PNAS social science section, it is utterly astounding to me how pozzed the fields of sociology and its subdisciplines are.

it's literally called PNAS of course it's full of faggots

 

[Sugriva]

everyone who does this is a retard

the article is 3 paragraphs long, it wouldn't be acceptable for an elementary school 5th grade expository essay, and people are still like "i'm sure 100% of the information i need is found in the headline"

Reading is for queers. I'm so straight that I'm illiterate.

 

[CowPox]

Its true op, its damn true.

 

[round robin]

Hate is downstream from fear, no one just wakes up one day and begins hating niggers and trannies, they do it after having been given good reason to do so. They want you to suppress your emotional responses to stimuli without actually doing anything to assuage your fears besides acting like smug faggots. This shit only works on the most brainwashed morons.