Reddit quarantined: can changing platform affordances reduce hateful material online?
This paper studies the efficacy of the Reddit’s quarantine, increasingly implemented in the platform as a means of restricting and reducing misogynistic and other hateful material. Using the case studies of r/TheRedPill and r/Braincels, the paper argues the quarantine successfully cordoned off affec...
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| Language: | English |
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Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
2020-10-01
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| Series: | Internet Policy Review |
| Online Access: | https://policyreview.info/node/1516 |