The Geopolitics of Deplatforming: The Suspension of Politically Interested Iranian Accounts on Twitter

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Brief Overview

We track the activity and suspension of 600,000 Twitter users interested in Iranian politics for a six-month period. We then use computational methods to assess differences between suspended and non-suspended users.

Authors

• Andreu Casas, Vrije Universiteit

• Mehdi Zamani, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam