It also dropped 50 IQ points in the process.
Liberals want to blame this on right wing racist rants on the internet.
However, much of the chat data is biased left.
There’s a site called “SJW or Stormfront?” where you take a quiz, guessing whether conversation threads are liberal social justice warriors or white power advocates. The identity of the groups they are hating on is blacked out, so you can guess based on vocabulary and grammar, but it is often close to 50-50.
When they talk about conspiracy theories of NWO, Illuminati, companies trying to poison us with chemicals in food and GMO is evil, the two are right on par. Or in the case of Tay, “9-11 was an inside job”, though Stormfront blames the Jews and both sides have people who say the government did it for the military-industrial complex to have a reason to go to war for oil.
So the liberals need to realize their far left screeds are as bad as the right - and far more commonly dispersed in media and the internet.