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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simon Copland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society 2020-10-01
Series:Internet Policy Review
Online Access:https://policyreview.info/node/1516