Understanding Effects of Moderation and Migration on Online Video Sharing Platforms
To mitigate the propagation of potentially dangerous information (e.g., fake news), social media platforms usually rely on the deletion or censoring of content (here called moderation). In this research, we measure how content moderation on YouTube affects a channel's popularity. To achieve our goal, we gather information on videos that were deleted from YouTube using the altCensored platform. We cross-section this data with channel popularity time series from SocialBlade. After characterizing t
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10.1145/3511095.3536377
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Understanding Effects of Moderation and Migration on Online Video Sharing Platforms
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To mitigate the propagation of potentially dangerous information (e.g., fake news), social media platforms usually rely on the deletion or censoring of content (here called moderation). In this research, we measure how content moderation on YouTube affects a channel's popularity. To achieve our goal, we gather information on videos that were deleted from YouTube using the altCensored platform. We cross-section this data with channel popularity time series from SocialBlade. After characterizing t
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Gabriel Luis Santos Freire, Tales Panoutsos, Lucas Perez, Fabricio Benevenuto, Flavio Figueiredo
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2022-06-28