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- 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. Typically, deplatforming involves actions taken by the social media sites themselves.
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Oct 25, 2023 · Deplatforming, or banning malicious accounts from social media, is a key tool for moderating online harms. However, the consequences of deplatforming for the wider social media ecosystem have been largely overlooked so far, due to the difficulty of tracking banned users.
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Jeremy Blackburn, assistant professor of computer science, Binghamton University The question of how effective deplatforming is can be looked at from two different angles: Does it work from a technical standpoint, and does it have an effect on worrisome communities themselves? Does deplatforming work from a technical perspective? Gab was the first ...
Ugochukwu Etudo, assistant professor of operations and information management, University of Connecticut Does the deplatforming of prominent figures and movement leaders who command large followings online work? That depends on the criteria for the success of the policy intervention. If it means punishing the target of the deplatforming so they pay...
Robert Gehl, associate professor of communication and media studies, Louisiana Tech University Deplatforming not only works, I believe it needs to be built into the system. Social media should have mechanisms by which racist, fascist, misogynist or transphobic speakers are removed, where misinformation is removed, and where there is no way to pay t...
The results for production show a similar pattern to consumption : While the average effect is modest or null, the effect is dependent on distance to the removed users. On average, members of the audience produced slightly less hateful content each day, but there was no effect on the ratio of hateful content to total content produced, as users reduced their overall content production.
In this paper, we aim to measure the effect that deplatforming events have on users, looking at how their activity changes when they get suspended on a social network and move to an alternative
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May 11, 2020 · Deplatforming may limit the breath of hate and extremism on mainstream platforms but increase extremists’ motivations to plot, doing so in secret. On the other hand, allowing hate unfettered access to the worlds’ most powerful megaphones to recruit more to their cause is similarly risky.
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Jun 5, 2024 · We use a sharp regression discontinuity (SRD) design to identify the effect of the deplatforming intervention on the reduction of misinformation circulated by the deplatformed users via...
RQ2: How does deplatforming affect the spread of offensive ideas held by deplatformed influencers? Those suspicious of the effect of deplatforming also argue that even though banning someone
