{"id":9453,"date":"2018-02-03T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T12:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=9453"},"modified":"2018-02-08T18:33:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T17:33:15","slug":"racist-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2018\/02\/racist-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Racist comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received a Google alert of a new paper that cites<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosmedicine\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pmed.0050192\"> our earlier work<\/a>. The authors describe a Twitter analysis&#8221;&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1801.09946\">23andMe confirms: I\u2019m super white<\/a>&#8220;. It showcases a lot of noise &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The two most popular DTC companies, 23andMe and AncestryDNA, also generate the most tweets. However, al-though 23andMe has half the customers, it produces almost 5 times more tweets, which is also due to controversy around their failure to get FDA approval in 2015.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and even more noise<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In particular, the \u201cethnic\u201d breakdown provided by ancestry reports seems to spur several instances of negative sentiment tweets associated with racism and disapproval of multi-cultural\/multi-ethnic values. For instance, a user with more than 3K followers self-describing as a \u201cYuge fan for Donald Trump\u201d, tweets: \u201cGet this race mixing shit off my time line!!\u201d in response to a 23andMe video about ancestry [&#8230;] Also, Twitter might be removing tweets with hate words as claimed in their hateful conduct policy. Nonetheless, we do find instances of hate speech, e.g., antisemitic tweets [&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This what I already feared, the largely useless genetic testing is being misused for inferior interests. It is dangerous too, just read the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/9\/9\/5975653\/with-genetic-testing-i-gave-my-parents-the-gift-of-divorce-23andme\">case history<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 09.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received a Google alert of a new paper that cites our earlier work. The authors describe a Twitter analysis&#8221;&#8221;23andMe confirms: I\u2019m super white&#8220;. It showcases a lot of noise &#8230; The two most popular DTC companies, 23andMe and AncestryDNA, also generate the most tweets. However, al-though 23andMe has half the customers, it produces &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2018\/02\/racist-comments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Racist comments<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9453"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9470,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453\/revisions\/9470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}