Deplatforming refers to the permanent ban of controversial public figures with large
followings on social media sites. In recent years, platforms like Facebook, Twitter and …

Social media platforms have been establishing content moderation guidelines and
employing various moderation policies to counter hate speech and misinformation. The goal …

With the increasing popularity of some alternative social media platforms, the flow of
information has to some extent shifted from the periphery to the core, where problematic …

Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the
emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a …

Radicalisation via algorithmic recommendations on social media is an ongoing concern. Our
prior study, Ledwich and Zaitsev (2020), investigated the flow of recommendations …

Abstract The Economics of Content Moderation: Theory and Experimental Evidence from
Hate Speech on Twitter Rafael Jimenez-Duran University of Chicago November 2022 New …

Digital technologies have changed the public arena, but there is little scholarly consensus
about how they have done so. This Element lays out a new framework for the digitally …

This article introduces the notion of platformed conspiracism to conceptualize reconfigured
forms of conspiracy theory communication as a result of the mutual shaping between …

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 …

Widespread conspiracy theories may significantly impact our society. This paper focuses on
the QAnon conspiracy theory, a consequential conspiracy theory that started on and …