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Aug 26, 2022 · Overall, research suggests deplatforming can reduce the activity of nefarious actors on those sites. However, it comes with a price. As deplatformed people and groups migrate elsewhere, they may lose followers but also become more hateful and toxic.
- Does Deplatforming Work?
- Alternative Solutions
- Looking Forward
Research shows deplatforming does have positive effects on the platform the person or group was kicked out of. When Reddit banned certain forumsvictimising overweight people and African Americans, a lot of users who were active on these hateful subreddits stopped posting on Reddit altogether. Those who stayed active posted less extreme content. But...
What else can be done to avoid the concentration of online hate that deplatforming can encourage? Social networks have been experimenting with soft moderation interventions that do not remove content or ban users. They limit the content’s visibility (shadow banning), restrict the ability of other users to engage with the content (replying or sharin...
A crucial aspect of deplatforming is timing. The sooner platforms act to stop groups using mainstream platforms to grow extremist movements, the better. Rapid action could in theory put the brakes on the groups’ efforts to muster and radicalise large user bases. But this would also need a coordinated effort from mainstream platforms as well other m...
- Emiliano De Cristofaro
May 6, 2020 · Extreme, anti-establishment actors are being characterized increasingly as ‘dangerous individuals’ by the social media platforms that once aided in making them into ‘Internet celebrities’. These in...
- Richard Rogers
- 2020
Feb 6, 2023 · This report analyzes whether deplatforming websites—removing infrastructure services they need to operate, such as payment processing—can reduce the spread and reach of extremism and hate online.
Most studies assessing the impact of deplatforming have worked with data on social networks. Deplatforming users may reduce activity and toxicity levels of relevant actors on Twitter [31] and Reddit [32], [33], limit the spread of conspiratorial disinformation on Facebook [34], and minimise disinformation and extreme speech on YouTube [35]. But
Jan 15, 2021 · Banning extremists from social media platforms can reduce hate speech, but the deplatforming process has to be handled with care – and it can have unintended consequences.
To counter this, social media platforms reduce the ability of such organizations to organize on their platforms, often by removing the members, or “deplatforming” them. † To what extent does deplatforming successfully mitigate harm? To answer this question, we employ a differences-in-differences design, taking advantage of the staggered ...
