Musk is wrecking speech moderation on Twitter. There’s an alternative. Henry Farrell - November 12, 2022 Twitter alternative Mastodon moderates speech not through banning, but shunning across a broader ‘Fediverse’ of services.
Patriot Front is on the march. It’s selling a story about whiteness. Candice K. Travis - July 24, 2022 Here’s the story the group was peddling when it marched on Boston’s Freedom Trail — and in hundreds of other appearances so far this year
When Twitter suspends users, their views get more extreme Tamar Mitts and Jack Snyder - June 15, 2022 A new Texas law seeks to make it harder to “deplatform” users
Conspiracy theories are spreading wildly. Why now? Margaret Appleby - May 18, 2022 The Buffalo shooting shows how deadly such theories can be.
Twitter banned Marjorie Taylor Greene. That may not hurt her much. Megan A. Brown and Maggie Macdonald - January 13, 2022 She’s gaining followers and ‘likes’ on other social media platforms, our research finds
The assault on the U.S. Capitol opens a new chapter in domestic terrorism Daniel Byman - January 14, 2021 The counterterrorism manual doesn’t cover an insurrection egged on by one party’s leaders.
The daily use of Gab is climbing. Which talker might become as violent as the Pittsburgh synagogue gunman? Siddharth Krishnan, Shannon Reid, Matthew Phillips, Matthew Valasik, and Arunkumar Bagavathi - November 29, 2018 [caption id="attachment_80781" align="aligncenter" width="960"] A makeshift memorial outside Tree of
Alex Jones was just banned from YouTube, Facebook and iTunes. Here’s how he managed to survive until now Henry Farrell - August 6, 2018 [caption id="attachment_76387" align="alignleft" width="960"] Alex Jones of Infowars speaks at