Inside the Right-Leaning Echo Chambers: Characterizing Gab, an Unmoderated Social System
Inside the Right-Leaning Echo Chambers: Characterizing Gab, an Unmoderated Social System
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右倾回音室内部：Gab 的特征，一种不受约束的社会制度
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2018
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Fabrício Benevenuto
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Lucas Lima;Julio C. S. Reis;P. Melo;Fabricio Murai;Leandro Araújo Silva;Pantelis Vikatos;Fabrício Benevenuto
许多社交媒体系统（如Twitter和Facebook）对内容的节制促使了一种新的促进言论自由的社交网络系统的出现，该系统名为Gab。不久之后，Gab因为违反了公司的仇恨言论政策而被b谷歌Play商店下架，苹果也以类似的原因拒绝了它。在本文中，我们描述了Gab，旨在了解谁是加入它的用户，以及他们在这个系统中共享什么样的内容。我们的研究结果表明，Gab是一个非常政治导向的系统，它禁止其他社交网络的用户，其中一些是由于可能的仇恨言论和与极端主义有关的情况。我们首次对右倾回音室内的新闻传播进行了测量，调查了一个社交媒体，在这个媒体上，读者很少接触到跨越意识形态界限的内容，而是接触到强化他们当前政治或社会观点的内容。
The moderation of content in many social media systems, such as Twitter and Facebook, motivated the emergence of a new social network system that promotes free speech, named Gab. Soon after that, Gab has been removed from Google Play Store for violating the company's hate speech policy and it has been rejected by Apple for similar reasons. In this paper we characterize Gab, aiming at understanding who are the users who joined it and what kind of content they share in this system. Our findings show that Gab is a very politically oriented system that hosts banned users from other social networks, some of them due to possible cases of hate speech and association with extremism. We provide the first measurement of news dissemination inside a right-leaning echo chamber, investigating a social media where readers are rarely exposed to content that cuts across ideological lines, but rather are fed with content that reinforces their current political or social views.