Actually, the internet's always been this bad
A new study considers 30 years of comments, with surprising conclusions
The internet is a festering, antisocial hellscape that has only gotten worse with time. That claim is held so widely — and so unequivocally — that it's become a ground truth of life online.
But a fascinating new study out today in Nature complicates the presumption that online discourse is bad and worsening. A team of I…
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