论文标题
了解禁止激进社区后的在线迁移决策
Understanding Online Migration Decisions Following the Banning of Radical Communities
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论文摘要
激进的在线社区及其暴力分支的扩散引发了人们的极大关注。但是，当前禁止此类社区从主流平台上的做法产生了意想不到的后果：（i）其成员在迁移的边缘平台上进一步激进； （ii）从边缘回到主流平台的有害内容的溢出。在这里，在一项大型观察性研究中，对两个被禁止的子雷数，r/the \ _donald和r/fatpeoplehate，我们研究了与Recro激进化框架相关的因素如何与用户的迁移决策相关。具体来说，我们量化了这些因素如何影响用户在边缘平台上发布的决定，对于那些这样做的人，他们是否继续在主流平台上发布。我们的结果表明，与用户行为有关的个人级别因素与在边缘平台上发布的决定有关。而社会水平的因素，用户与激进社区的联系仅影响在两个平台上共同执行的倾向。总体而言，我们的发现为基于证据的审核政策铺平了道路，因为迁移和保持共同激活的决定可以扩大社区禁令的意想不到的后果。
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 subreddits, 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.
