Patriots. You are being watched.

Words matter. Language matters.

Mods, consider your own words, and the impact that it has on discussion and tone.

Optics Matter, Slurs Detract.

-Monkey

https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04885

In this work, we focus on characterizing the QAnon movement on this http URL [Voat.co]. QAnon is a conspiracy theory that supports the idea that powerful politicians, aristocrats, and celebrities are closely engaged in a pedophile ring. At the same time, many governments are controlled by the "puppet masters" where the democratically elected officials serve as a fake showroom of democracy. Voat, a 5-year-old news aggregator, captured the interest of many journalists because of the often hateful content its users' post. Hence, we collect data from seventeen QAnon related subverses to characterize the narrative around QAnon, detect the most prominent topics of discussion, and showcase how the different topics and terms used in QAnon related subverses are interconnected.

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.04885

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Notably, we relied on a word2vec model to illustrate the connection of different terms to closely related words. We found that the terms "qanon" and "q" are closely related to other conspiracy theories like "pizzagate"

Last we attempt to showcase how racist these communities tend to be, motivated by the slurs we detect in the word2vec model vocabulary and in the topic modeling we performed in Section 5.1. We now calculate the cosine similarity of the terms "nigger," and "jew."

By looking at Table 6, it is clear that the term "nigger" is associated with many hateful slurs like "kike" (a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of the Jewish religion or descent) "faggot" and "filthy"

As hypothesized, the term "jew" is closely related to words associated with the holocaust, and the terms "masters," and "puppet" which suggests that indeed the users in these communities blame people of the Jewish religion or descent for corrupting their government, and leading the "deep state"

Alarmingly, we found that only one user authored about 30% of the total submissions posted in the most active subverse

Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

Proverbs 17:27