Do Sanctioning and Monitoring Reduce Political Candidates’ Online Toxicity?

• In Event: Cross-Party Conflict and Cooperation Across Western Democracies

Brief Overview

We conduct a field experiment among candidates for the 2022 U.S. general election to assess whether Twitter-based co-partisan sanctioning and email-based monitoring by researchers can reduce online toxicity.

Authors

• Yunus Emre Orhan, North Dakota State University

• Valeriya Mechkova, University of Gothenburg

• Dan Pemstein, North Dakota State University

• Brigitte Seim, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Steven Wilson, Brandeis University