"Trolls Across America: Mapping the Most and Least Troll-Ridden Places in the U.S."

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18. Link to try out Perspective software:

Scroll down to the "Writing Experiment" section and type in a comment to be evaluated on toxicity.

https://www.perspectiveapi.com/#/

Be sure to try some profanity - it seems to have a noticeable effect.

I think the software has been updated since last August when the Wired article was published.

When enter "I hate racists", I get only 60% toxic rating, as compared to to 96% rating reported by WCAX last year.


From http://www.wcax.com/content/news/Is-Vermont-really-home-to-the-most-online-trolls-441557493.html

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To show how tough it is to weigh context, she pulled up that Perspective program and typed in the word racist.

"So racist by itself is 87 percent likely to be perceived as toxic," she noted.

Then something many might think is toxic: "I like racists-- 87 percent," she said.

The same toxicity level. So, she tried flipping the sentence to something that might not seem toxic.

"I hate racists-- 96 percent because now we have the words hate and racists," Young said.
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