Reddit’s Biggest Atheism Hangout Scores Sky-High For Toxic Content and Bigotry, Data Analysts Say

On Friday, I published a moderately unkindcomment about Reddit; I said that while I love Reddit warts and all,its content is 80to90percentdross. Mostly, that referred to the atheism subreddit(or r/atheism, in Reddit-speak). I visit the place five or six days a week,and there is always a lot of junk to wade through: fromrickety, poorly-worded argumentstorepetitions of old news stories that had already been posted days or weeks earlier. Also, of course, there’s a delugeof low-quality memes.

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