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by mwfunk 3496 days ago
It is a problem and it is difficult to fix, but the short term solution is not to do nothing, which is all anyone seems to propose (if they propose anything at all) when this topic comes up.

In general I disagree that toxic/hateful tweets are a symptom of frustration in society- they're mostly just a symptom of many humans being hateful jerks, plain and simple. I don't like echo chambers either, but I really don't think that there's any crucial intellectual gold hiding amongst the masses of toxic garbage out there. To a lot of people, posting on the Internet is akin to writing random garbage on a bathroom wall.