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Article History

Received: 1 February 2023

Accepted: 16 April 2024

First Online: 20 May 2024

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: This article does not contain any studies with human participants performed by any of the authors. Instead, it used publicly available data and as such was exempt from requiring ethical approval. Still, as was mentioned in the Methodology section, while planning and carrying out this study we kept in mind various ethical issues regarding digital content. Regarding the dignity and anonymity of /pol/ users, we can assume that they expect that their content will be read by others (the data is publicly available). On the other hand, the strong emphasis on anonymity within /pol/ removes the issue of de-anonymization of users. Therefore, it is impossible to identify the /pol/ users that participated in discussions that were analysed in this study.

: This article does not contain any studies with human participants performed by any of the authors. All data that was used in this study is publicly available and also by its nature anonymous. Furthermore, due to /pol/’s strong emphasis on user anonymity, it is impossible to de-anonymize /pol/ users.