False equivalencies: Online activism from left to right

D Freelon, A Marwick, D Kreiss - Science, 2020 - science.org
Digital media are critical for contemporary activism—even low-effort “clicktivism” is politically
consequential and contributes to offline participation. We argue that in the United States and …

The efficacy of Facebook's vaccine misinformation policies and architecture during the COVID-19 pandemic

DA Broniatowski, JR Simons, J Gu, AM Jamison… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Online misinformation promotes distrust in science, undermines public health, and may drive
civil unrest. During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, Facebook—the world's largest …

Deplatformization and the governance of the platform ecosystem

J Van Dijck, T de Winkel, MT Schäfer - New Media & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This article analyzes deplatformization as an implied governance strategy by major tech
companies to detoxify the platform ecosystem of radical content while consolidating their …

An early look at the parler online social network

M Aliapoulios, E Bevensee, J Blackburn… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Parler is as an" alternative" social network promoting itself as a service that allows to" speak
freely and express yourself openly, without fear of being deplatformed for your views." …

Deplatforming the far-right: An analysis of YouTube and BitChute

A Rauchfleisch, J Kaiser - Available at SSRN 3867818, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
The content moderation practice of deplatforming, ie the removal of undesired actors, has
become common on social media platforms such as YouTube. Little research has gone into …

Hatemm: A multi-modal dataset for hate video classification

M Das, R Raj, P Saha, B Mathew, M Gupta… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Hate speech has become one of the most significant issues in modern society, having
implications in both the online and the offline world. Due to this, hate speech research has …

Politicization and radicalization of discourses in the alt-tech ecosystem: A case study on Gab Social

E Dehghan, A Nagappa - Social Media+ Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

A large open dataset from the Parler social network

M Aliapoulios, E Bevensee, J Blackburn… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
Parler is as an``alternative''social network promoting itself as a service that allows to``speak
freely and express yourself openly, without fear of being deplatformed for your …

Conceptualizing platformed conspiracism: Analytical framework and empirical case study of BitChute and Gab

D Mahl, J Zeng, MS Schäfer - new media & society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This article introduces the notion of platformed conspiracism to conceptualize reconfigured
forms of conspiracy theory communication as a result of the mutual shaping between …

[HTML][HTML] Organization and evolution of the UK far-right network on Telegram

A Bovet, P Grindrod - Applied Network Science, 2022 - Springer
The instant messaging platform Telegram has become popular among the far-right
movements in the US and UK in recent years. These groups use public Telegram channels …