Every r/politics post we could pull from the past year, run through a topic classifier and a sentiment model. The question: is the internet's biggest politics forum about politics, or about one guy?
Posts about Trump/GOP that touch no policy topic at all, versus posts about an actual policy issue that never mention Trump or the GOP.
Share of titles that use hyperbolic or combat language (fascist, dictator, slams, meltdown, destroys… full list in methodology) and score strongly negative (VADER ≤ −0.5).
Real titles: the highest-scoring posts that contain hyperbolic language and VADER ≤ −0.6. Click through to Reddit.
The 4,000 highest-scoring posts in the dataset.
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