Warnings of Suspension and Hate Speech: An Experiment on Twitter

• In Event: Hate Speech Online and Offline

Brief Overview

Based on the literature on deterrence, we design various messages that warn users on a social media platform, Twitter. We send our warning messages only to the followers of the suspended accounts to increase the credibility of our warnings.

Authors

• Mustafa Mikdat Yildirim, New York University

• Joshua A. Tucker, New York University

• Jonathan Nagler, New York University

• Rich Bonneau, New York University