{"id":9232,"date":"2019-08-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=4e3d18a32e2273ccc1ba4c6ad0cf74e7"},"modified":"2019-08-22T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:00:00","slug":"researchers-propose-a-new-approach-for-dismantling-online-hate-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9232","title":{"rendered":"Researchers propose a new approach for dismantling online hate networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/interface\/2019\/8\/22\/20827509\/online-hate-networks-neil-johnson-george-washington-miami-facebook-vkontakte\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Hmm. \r\nThe \"composed of loosely connected clusters of tightly connected individuals\" thing is not surprising, basically all social systems look like that.\r\n\r\nThe \"When you try to mass-deplatform a group, it leaves for somewhere it will be dominant\" observation is not surprising, there are lots of visible cases.\r\n\r\nThe other thoughts are _weird_ though.  \r\n\r\nNon-unifomly banning, knocking off small groups and random problematic individuals, aiming to slowly dissociate rather than trigger a mass migration seems like a reasonable response to that information, but is the opposite of the \"Consistent rules, applied consistently\" thing that is required for a platform to be trustworthy for anyone. \r\n\r\nBaiting fights between rival groups so they expend all their energy fighting is ..sometimes appealing and hilarious... but the opposite of the now-forgotten \"Don't feed the trolls\" rule that always seemed to keep things much less obnoxious than the present era of performative outrage.<\/div><img alt=\"Network stock\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/MXSh0_58Mt_4KEDV0si0uYnA4Os=\/3x0:1017x676\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/65088179\/networkstock1_1020.0.jpg\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><p>How do you get rid of hate speech on social platforms? Until now, companies have generally tried two approaches. One is to ban individual users who are caught posting abuse; the other is to ban the large pages and groups where people who practice hate speech organize and promote their noxious views.<\/p>\n<p>But what if this approach is counterproductive? That&rsquo;s the argument in <a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=66960X1514734&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41586-019-1494-7\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >an intriguing new paper out today<\/a> in <em>Nature<\/em> from Neil Johnson, a professor of physics at George Washington University, and researchers at GW and the University of Miami. The paper, &ldquo;Hidden resilience and adaptive dynamics of the global online hate ecology,&rdquo; explores how hate groups organize on Facebook and Russian social network VKontakte &mdash; and how they resurrect...<\/p>\n  <p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/interface\/2019\/8\/22\/20827509\/online-hate-networks-neil-johnson-george-washington-miami-facebook-vkontakte\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you get rid of hate speech on social platforms? 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