Can Social Media Anti-abuse Policies Work? A Quasi-experimental Study of Online Sexist and Racist Slurs
The authors use the timing of a change in Twitter’s rules regarding abusive content to test the effectiveness of organizational policies aimed at stemming online harassment. Institutionalist theories of social control suggest that such interventions can be efficacious if they are perceived as legiti...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-08-01
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| Series: | Socius |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023120948711 |