了解禁止激进社区后的在线移民决策
Understanding Online Migration Decisions Following the Banning of Radical Communities
摘要：
激进的网络社区及其暴力分支的扩散引起了社会的极大关注。然而，目前禁止这些社区进入主流平台的做法产生了意想不到的后果：（I）他们的成员在边缘平台上进一步激进化;（ii）有害内容从边缘平台溢出回到主流平台。在这里，在对两个被禁止的子Reddits r/The\_Donald和r/fatpeoplehate的大型观察性研究中，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帖的决定，以及对于那些这样做的人，他们是否继续在主流平台上发帖。我们的研究结果表明，个人层面的因素，那些与用户的行为，与决定张贴在边缘平台。而社会层面的因素，用户与激进社区的联系，只影响在两个平台上共同活动的倾向。总的来说，我们的研究结果为基于证据的适度政策铺平了道路，因为移民和保持合作的决定放大了社区禁令的意外后果。
英文摘要：
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.
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