Editing A Data-driven Understanding of Left-Wing Extremists on Social Media

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The paper says that both tankies and [[Far-right politics|right-wing extremists]] migrated to new platforms after being banned from [[Reddit]] and increased their use of "toxic language." It also notes that both leftists and rightists fought against [[Islamic State|ISIS]] in [[Syrian Arab Republic|Syria]].<ref name=":0" /><sup>:2–3</sup>
The paper says that both tankies and [[Far-right politics|right-wing extremists]] migrated to new platforms after being banned from [[Reddit]] and increased their use of "toxic language." It also notes that both leftists and rightists fought against [[Islamic State|ISIS]] in [[Syrian Arab Republic|Syria]].<ref name=":0" /><sup>:2–3</sup>


=== Misunderstanding of Marxist positions ===
=== Misunderstanding of Marxism ===
The paper incoherently describes tankies as "more [[Stalinist]] than [[Leninism|Leninist]]."<ref name=":0" /><sup>:1</sup>
The paper incoherently describes tankies as "more [[Stalinist]] than [[Leninism|Leninist]]."<ref name=":0" /><sup>:1</sup>
Based on [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] analysis, the article falsely states that tankies claim all [[Judaism|Jews]] support [[Zionism]] and that tankies attack Jews for their identity.<ref name=":0" /><sup>:18</sup> It also claims that tankies attack the identities of [[Africa|Africans]], [[Arabs]], [[Asia|Asians]], [[Hinduism|Hindus]], [[Mexican United States|Mexicans]], and [[White people|whites]] in over 20% of posts mentioning these identities,<ref name=":0" /><sup>:21</sup> which combined would mean that they attack most people in the world for their ethnicity.


=== Western terminology ===
=== Western terminology ===
The paper abbreviates the [[Communist Party of China]] the CCP instead of CPC<ref name=":0" /><sup>:17</sup> and calls [[Russian Federation|Russia]] and [[People's Republic of China|China]] "[[Anti-imperialism|revisionist world powers]]."<ref name=":0" /><sup>:22</sup>
The paper abbreviates the [[Communist Party of China]] the CCP instead of CPC.<ref name=":0" /><sup>:17</sup>


== Methodology ==
== Methodology ==
When finding the most discussed topics, the paper does not filter out basic grammatical words such as 'the,' 'is,' and 'of.'<ref name=":0" /><sup>:13</sup>
When finding the most discussed topics, the paper does not filter out basic grammatical words such as 'the,' 'is,' and 'of.'<ref name=":0" /><sup>:13</sup>
The paper tries to use the Perspective API to numerically measure how the toxicity of Reddit comments in order to graph them.<ref name=":0" /><sup>:19–20</sup>


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