Abstract
We collect the data from Hong Kong’s major news media Facebook pages from 2019 to 2020 to examine the online ideological clashes between pro-democracy and pro-Beijing parties. We find that specific writing habits signify users’ backgrounds and elicit readers’ group segregation cues. Compared to Traditional Chinese comments, the increase of pro-police comments in Simplified Chinese induced a more polarized reaction from the opposite side with more anti-police comments and demand for regional independence. On the other hand, contents generated by the suspected bots alleviate the clashes. The results demonstrate the need for debiasing intervention and regulation in social media platforms.
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