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"I have spent the past 2 years conducting a study on 4chan's international board (/int/). You see it is commonly stated that /int/'s moderation is extremely biased, specifically when it comes to anything regarding Russia. I wanted to test this to see if this was actually true.
I made threads on /int/ (N=50) using various proxies. (https://pastebin.com/XfwT4zXR (embed)) Each thread would be made in a pair. One would be negative about Russia, the other would contain the near exact same wording except instead of Russia it would be about another country. I would then record if the thread was deleted and how long it would take to be deleted (in minutes). What I found was shocking even for me. 88.5% of threads negative about Russia were deleted while only 11.5% of threads negative about other countries were deleted. The median time of deletion for Russian threads were 4 minutes with the longest time being 5 hours and 19 minutes and the shortest time being 4.5 seconds (which was so fast the archive sites weren't able to archive it in time so it had to be thrown out). The confidence scores in the graph were calculated using Wilson score with a 95% confidence interval.
Under normal circumstances a sample size of 50 would be considered too small to be statistical significant or publishable but due to the immense and frankly shocking difference in outcomes it was able to more than overcome this and is provably statistical significant. On a scientific level the moderation of this board is biased. If this bias continues I will try to publish this as a pilot study in JOTS"