Insult to injury: toxic posts run rampant on Reddit

Social media’s growth has led to an explosion of harassment, profanity and cyberbullying

21 August 2022 - 19:36

Go with the flow, even if it is adding to a river of toxic comments, is how users behave on social media platform Reddit — where more than one in 10 publish malicious posts or comments...

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