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A comment on A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web. Parent comment

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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