"Liu Ye Dao" journal: Under extreme temperature, the number of Americans on the Internet has increased

According to the British "Guardian" reported on the 7th, a study of American social media users found that as the temperature became more and more extreme, the number of hatred on social platforms also increased sharply.

A study published in the medical magazine "Liu Ye Dao" showed that scientists found that when the temperature of a certain place was higher than 42 degrees Celsius, the number of racism, discrimination against women and homosexual tweets increased by 22%; When the ground temperature is below minus 3 degrees Celsius, the number of these tweets increases by 12%.

The main author of the study, Annika Steechemesser, Annika Steechemesser of the Institute of PoK, Germany, said: "We found that when leaving the climate comfort zone, the absolute number and proportion of hatred tweets They are all rising. When the temperature is too cold or too hot, people often show more aggressiveness in social media. "

The study uses an algorithm to identify about 75 million English hatred tweets. They come from 773 American cities and published from 2014 to 2020. The research team recorded the number of these hatred remarks and conducted statistical evaluation based on the temperature changes of the publisher's location.

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Studies have found that when the temperature is between 15-18 degrees Celsius, the number of hate tweets is the least, but when the temperature is lower than 12 degrees Celsius or rises to more than 21 degrees Celsius, the hate tweeting begins to increase. This increase is most significant at extreme temperatures.

Diego Naranjo, director of the European Digital Rights Organization Policy, believes that by prohibiting some large technology companies at present, it can alleviate the impact of climate change on hatred remarks. The business model of these companies is accused of promoting the content of hatred, but he pointed out: "The business model of large technology companies promotes social platform promotion to differentiate people, as long as large online platforms still have to spread people's posts to create viral communication The motivation of content, more hatred remarks may spread faster and put our mental health in risks. "

The Guardian reported that there were previous surveys that 40 % of Americans had experienced some form of cyber harassment, which may cause anxiety, depression and even self -harm. A UN study showed that nearly three -quarters of women around the world claimed that they had suffered cyber violence, and a quarter of the American blacks claimed that they had suffered racial discrimination on the Internet.

"Become the goal of online hatred remarks, which poses a serious threat to people's psychological health," Sterchemese said, "Psychological literature tells us that network hatred will worsen people's mental health, especially for young people and marginal groups "

The report mentioned that Twitter was selected as the object of PIK, because one -fifth of Americans used the social platform, and many tweets published on the platform were geographically positioned. This study defines the definition given by the United Nations during the remarks of hatred, that is, "because of the identity of individuals or groups (that is, their religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, skin tone, blood, gender or other identity factors), they attack them or right or right. They use any remarks, words, or behavioral exchanges in derogatory or discriminatory language.

(Edit: ZLQ)

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