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Understanding Online Migration Decisions Following the Banning of Radical Communities

Russo, Giuseppe
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Ribeiro, Manoel Horta  
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Casiraghi, Giona
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January 1, 2023
Proceedings Of The 15Th Acm Web Science Conference, Websci 2023
15th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci)

The proliferation of radical online communities and their violent offshoots has sparked great societal concern. However, the current practice of banning such communities from mainstream platforms has unintended consequences: (i) the further radicalization of their members in fringe platforms where they migrate; and (ii) the spillover of harmful content from fringe back onto mainstream platforms. Here, in a large observational study on two banned sub-reddits, r/The_Donald and r/fatpeoplehate, we examine how factors associated with the RECRO radicalization framework relate to users' migration decisions. Specifically, we quantify how these factors affect users' decisions to post on fringe platforms and, for those who do, whether they continue posting on the mainstream platform. Our results show that individual-level factors, those relating to the behavior of users, are associated with the decision to post on the fringe platform. Whereas social-level factors, users' connection with the radical community, only affect the propensity to be coactive on both platforms. Overall, our findings pave the way for evidence-based moderation policies, as the decisions to migrate and remain coactive amplify unintended consequences of community bans.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3578503.3583608
Web of Science ID

WOS:001118948600026

Author(s)
Russo, Giuseppe
Ribeiro, Manoel Horta  
Casiraghi, Giona
Verginer, Luca
Corporate authors
ACM
Date Issued

2023-01-01

Publisher

New York

Publisher place

Assoc Computing Machinery

Published in
Proceedings Of The 15Th Acm Web Science Conference, Websci 2023
ISBN of the book

979-8-4007-0089-7

Start page

251

End page

259

Subjects

Technology

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Editorial or Peer reviewed

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DLAB  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
15th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci)

Austin, TX

APR 30-MAY 01, 2023

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February 20, 2024
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