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Re:A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Ef... by thrwaway656 on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:34AM (#12706614)
This paper was shared on /pol/, here's a link to the (archived) thread if you're interested in reading the responses.

http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/92760043/

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Re:A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Ef... by rhaps0dy on Friday October 14, 2016 @04:10AM (#12706717)
Some of the replies to the thread show mistakes in the paper.

For example, Zimbabwe is marked as very active and very hateful. But it's probably just people with a VPN: doing that to get a "controversial" or "funny" country flag is a thing.

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Re:A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Ef... by AssadianSkpe on Saturday October 15, 2016 @07:12AM (#12713548)
Zimbabwe was known as South Rhodesia. South Rhodesia, to pol, is very significant culturally.
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