Matthew Katsaros

Filtering Offensive Content Changes Its Visibility but Not User Behavior: Two Randomized Controlled Trials with 200,000 Users on Nextdoor

David J. Grüning, Matthew Katsaros

We investigate the effectiveness of interventions that reduce the visibility of offensive content on the local social platform Nextdoor. Content filtering -- hiding or downranking offensive content that brushes against a platform's rules without clearly breaking them -- is deploy…Read more