Truth be told: How “true” and “false” labels influence user engagement with fact-checks

N Aruguete, I Bachmann, E Calvo… - New Media & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
When do users share fact-checks on social media? We describe a survey experiment
conducted during the 2019 election in Argentina measuring the propensity of voters to share …

No easy way out: The effectiveness of deplatforming an extremist forum to suppress hate and harassment

AV Vu, A Hutchings, R Anderson - 2024 IEEE Symposium on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Legislators and policymakers worldwide are debating options for suppressing illegal,
harmful and undesirable material online. Drawing on several quantitative data sources, we …

[PDF][PDF] Understanding the phases and themes of coordinated online aggression attacks

G Stringhini, J Blackburn - Social processes of online hate, 2024 - library.oapen.org
Phases and Themes of Coordinated Online Aggression Attacks 251 have seen hundreds of
similar instances, and we have developed automated systems to identify these attacks and …

January 6 arrests and media coverage do not remobilize conservatives on social media

R Dahlke, J Pan - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Social media's pivotal role in catalyzing social movements is widely acknowledged across
scientific disciplines. Past research has predominantly explored social media's ability to …

The Private Life of QAnon: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Americans' Exposure to QAnon Content on the Web

RC Moore, R Dahlke, PL Forberg… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The QAnon movement has been credited with spreading disinformation and fueling online
radicalization in the United States and around the globe. While some research has …

The Effects of Social Approval Signals on the Production of Online Hate: A Theoretical Explication

JB Walther - Communication Research, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This essay explicates a middle range theory to predict and explain the propagation and
magnification of hate messages on social media. It builds upon an assumption that people …

An agent-based model of cross-platform information diffusion and moderation

I Murdock, KM Carley, O Yağan - Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2024 - Springer
Social media platforms are highly interconnected because many users maintain a presence
across multiple platforms. Consequently, efforts to limit the spread of misinformation taken by …

The Effects of Group Sanctions on Participation and Toxicity: Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Fediverse

C Colglazier, N TeBlunthuis, A Shaw - Proceedings of the International …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Online communities often overlap and coexist, despite incongruent norms and approaches
to content moderation. When communities diverge, decentralized and federated …

Media platforming and the normalisation of extreme right views

D Bolet, F Foos - Available at SSRN 4548420, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
As far-right views become increasingly socially acceptable, the conditions under which
democratic institutions, including the media, contribute to this normalisation process, and …

[PDF][PDF] Far and Widening

J Ling - Public Policy Forum, 2023 - ppforum.ca
Preface voices through virtual and in-person community roundtables held across the
country. In addition, we commissioned a survey of 1,500 young adults, a group generally …