A new analysis suggests that posts in hate speech communities on the social media website Reddit share speech-pattern similarities with posts in Reddit communities for certain psychiatric disorders. Dr. Andrew William Alexander and Dr. Hongbin Wang of Texas A&M University, U.S., present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS Digital Health.
“Importantly, these findings do not at all suggest that people with psychiatric disorders are more prone to hate speech or misinformation.”
They might have it the wrong way around… People engaging in hate speech and misinformation may be more prone to psychiatric disorders.
It’s kind of like people who have strokes become republicans.