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Article History

Accepted: 18 April 2023

First Online: 28 April 2023

Declarations

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: In December 2019, the Institutional Review Board at the University of Washington determined that the public availability of the data used in this research meant that it did not need to be reviewed as human research under federal guidelines. Because individuals already have provided consent under Reddit’s terms and conditions, the authors are not required under federal or institutional guidelines to seek additional informed consent to include posts in this research. However, deleted posts have been removed from the dataset as an additional consideration of consent.

: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. As stated above, in December 2019, the Institutional Review Board at the University of Washington determined that the public availability of the data used in this research meant that it did not need to be reviewed as human research under federal guidelines. Because individuals already have provided consent under Reddit’s terms and conditions, the authors are not required under federal or institutional guidelines to seek additional informed consent to include posts in this research. Regardless of these designations, the authors have taken care beyond what is required under IRB or federal guidelines to anonymize and aggregate all user posts to protect individual privacy in the communication of findings from this research.

: As stated above, in December 2019, the Institutional Review Board at the University of Washington determined that the public availability of the data used in this research meant that it did not need to be reviewed as human research under federal guidelines.

: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.