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Twitter is Showing That People Are Anxious and Depressed – The New York Times

Researchers are looking at online behavior to gauge public mental health. The results aren’t pretty.

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On May 31, the most commonly used words on English language Twitter included terrorist, violence and racist. This was about a week after George Floyd was killed, near thestart of the protests that would last all summer.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Hedonometers sadness readings have set multiple records. This year, there was a full month and we never see this there was a full month of days that the Hedonometer was reading sadder than the Boston Marathon day, Dr. Danforth said. Our c…

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