The Double-Edged Sword of Banning Extremists from Social Media

Sam Jackson

No 2g7yd, SocArXiv from Center for Open Science

Abstract: Over the past few years, researchers, activists, and policymakers have engaged in debates over how social media companies should respond to extremism on their platforms. One facet of this debate focuses on the consequences – online and offline – of different approaches. Debates about the effectiveness of various approaches have not recognized that there are two different goals: reducing extremist violence and reducing extremism. This article presents a thought experiment that unpacks these goals, thinks through possible relationships between different approaches and different goals, and suggests a number of hypotheses that could be tested to empirically investigate the consequences of banning or tolerating extremists on social media.

Date: 2019-07-02
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://osf.io/download/5d1b5e694994dd0018161ca1/

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:osf:socarx:2g7yd

DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/2g7yd

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in SocArXiv from Center for Open Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by OSF ().