Fig. 3
Rate of engagement on Race (black lines), COVID (green line), and Reproductive Rights topics (pink line) within Reddit city subreddits (dashed lines) and News Headlines (solid lines) from January 2019 to April 2023. The y-axis denotes the percentage of posts that pertain to either Race, COVID, or Reproductive rights. Key events are annotated with vertical dashed lines in the event’s respective color. COVID surges refer to large increases in infections, hospitalizations, and deaths and are denoted by green vertical bars. The shaded areas are 95% CIs for each datapoint. The confidence intervals are narrow, which makes the error bands hard to see, especially in (b).
