Abstract

The proliferation of harmful content shared online poses a threat to the integrity of online information and the integrity of discussion across platforms. Despite the various moderation interventions adopted by social media platforms, researchers and policymakers are calling for holistic solutions. This study explores how a target platform could take advantage of content that has been deemed harmful on a source platform by investigating the behavior and characteristics of Twitter users responsible for sharing moderated YouTube videos. Using a large-scale dataset of 600M tweets related to the 2020 US election, we find that moderated Youtube videos are extensively shared on Twitter and that users who share these videos also endorse extreme and conspiratorial ideologies. A fraction of these users are eventually suspended by Twitter, but they do not appear to be involved in state-backed information operations. The …

Metadata

publication

ACM Hypertext 2023, 2023

year

2023

publication date

2023/4/3

authors

Valerio La Gatta, Luca Luceri, Francesco Fabbri, Emilio Ferrara

link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3603163.3609058

resource_link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3603163.3609058

journal

ACM Hypertext 2023