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The "brilliant and bonkers" world of below the line comments

Marc Burrows spent five years moderating the comments posted beneath articles on The Guardian website. They say they can receive over 70,000 comments a day. It's a world of trolling and wisecracking, but also - sometimes - genuine friendship. He told Newshour what life's like "below the line", starting with the issues that provoke the most ire..

(Photo: a hammer shattering a laptop computer's keyboard into pieces. Credit: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images)

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