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dc.contributor.authorDwork, Cynthia
dc.contributor.authorHays, Chris
dc.contributor.authorKleinberg, Jon
dc.contributor.authorRaghavan, Manish
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-03T18:24:57Z
dc.date.available2024-06-03T18:24:57Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-13
dc.identifier.isbn979-8-4007-0171-9
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155154
dc.descriptionWWW '24: Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference May 13–17, 2024, Singapore, Singaporeen_US
dc.description.abstractWe study the impact of content moderation policies in online communities. In our theoretical model, a platform chooses a content moderation policy and individuals choose whether or not to participate in the community according to the fraction of user content that aligns with their preferences. The effects of content moderation, at first blush, might seem obvious: platform speech is restricted. However, when user participation decisions are taken into account, its effects can be more subtle --- and counter-intuitive. For example, our model can straightforwardly demonstrate how moderation policies mayincrease participation and/ordiversify content available on the platform. In our analysis, we explore a rich set of interconnected phenomena related to content moderation in online communities. We first characterize the effectiveness of a natural class of moderation policies for creating and sustaining communities. Building on this, we explore how resource-limited or ideological platforms might set policies, how communities are affected by differing levels of personalization, and competition between platforms. Our model provides a vocabulary and mathematically tractable framework for analyzing platform decisions about content moderation.en_US
dc.publisherACMen_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.1145/3589334.3645490en_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attributionen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.sourceAssociation for Computing Machineryen_US
dc.titleContent Moderation and the Formation of Online Communities: A Theoretical Frameworken_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationDwork, Cynthia, Hays, Chris, Kleinberg, Jon and Raghavan, Manish. 2024. "Content Moderation and the Formation of Online Communities: A Theoretical Framework."
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
dc.contributor.departmentSloan School of Management
dc.identifier.mitlicensePUBLISHER_CC
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaperen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/NonPeerRevieweden_US
dc.date.updated2024-06-01T07:45:49Z
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dspace.date.submission2024-06-01T07:45:49Z
mit.licensePUBLISHER_POLICY
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