Alon Zoizner
alonzoizner.bsky.social
Alon Zoizner
@alonzoizner.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Haifa, Israel
Reposted by Alon Zoizner
Social media users adopt the toxic behaviors of ingroup members

An analysis of 7 million tweets from over 700,000 accounts finds that exposures to toxic behavior by ingroup members is the primary driver of contagious toxicity online academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...
October 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
New publication alert🔓🚨
Toxic speech is widespread on social media – but do users mirror the toxic behavior of their ingroup or react defensively to outgroup toxicity?
Our new paper in JCMC examines how ingroup and outgroup behavior shape the spread of toxicity on social media.
October 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Reposted by Alon Zoizner
Great team work led by @alonzoizner.bsky.social with Matthes, Corbu, @esserfrank.bsky.social, Koc Michalska, Schemer, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social @janzilinsky.bsky.social and 🙋
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July 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM