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PirateJesus to Skeptic@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

No, The Internet Hasn’t Gotten Worse: Just Your Outlook

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No, The Internet Hasn’t Gotten Worse: Just Your Outlook

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PirateJesus to Skeptic@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Ah, the good old days of the internet – a utopian paradise where everyone was kind, respectful, and definitely not arguing about Hitler. Or was it? A recent study published in Nature has some surpr…

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07229-y

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07229-y.pdf

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    I wouldn’t say John Titor was widely believed outside the Art Bell types.

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