Deplatforming, demotion and folk theories of Big Tech persecution

Keulenaar, Emillie De; Burton, Anthony; Kisjes, Ivan

doi:10.4013/fem.2021.232.09

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“…This has led to a removal of many such accounts from mainstream platforms, which is likely to be a factor in the increasing presence of such groups on alternative platforms and in particular on Telegram. Supporting this argument, de Keulenaar et al (2020) showed that YouTube adapted its content moderation policies to the spread of COVID-19 misinformation and was increasingly and pro-actively removing this content. These changes were associated with a trend of deplatformed content appearing on numerous alternative platforms, including Telegram ( de Keulenaar et al, 2020 ).…”

Section: Social Media Covid-19 and The Far Rightmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Supporting this argument, de Keulenaar et al (2020) showed that YouTube adapted its content moderation policies to the spread of COVID-19 misinformation and was increasingly and pro-actively removing this content. These changes were associated with a trend of deplatformed content appearing on numerous alternative platforms, including Telegram ( de Keulenaar et al, 2020 ).…”

Section: Social Media Covid-19 and The Far Rightmentioning

confidence: 96%

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Covid-19 Protesters and the Far Right on Telegram: Co-Conspirators or Accidental Bedfellows?

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Carthy

2022

Social Media + Society

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The COVID-19 pandemic led to the creation of a new protest movement, positioned against government lockdowns, mandatory vaccines, and related measures. Efforts to control misinformation by digital platforms resulted in take downs of key accounts and posts. This led some of these protest groups to migrate to platforms with less stringent content moderation policies, such as Telegram. Telegram has also been one of the destinations of the far right, whose deplatforming from mainstream platforms began a few years ago. Given the co-existence of these two movements on Telegram, the article examines their connections. Empirically, the article focused on Irish Telegram groups and channels, identifying relevant protest movements and collecting their posts. Using computational social science methods, we examine whether far-right terms and discourses are present and how this varies across different clusters of Telegram Covid-19 protest groups. In addition, we examine which actors are posting far-right content and what kind of roles they play in the network of Telegram groups. The findings indicate the presence of far-right discourses among the COVID-19 groups. However, the existence of these groups was not solely driven by the extreme right, and the incidence of far-right discourses was not equal across all COVID-19 protest groups. We interpret these findings under the prism of the mediation opportunity structure: while the far right appears to have taken advantage of the network opportunity structure afforded by deplatforming and the migration to Telegram, it did not succeed in diffusing its ideas widely among the COVID-19 protest groups in the Irish Telegram.

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Section: Social Media Covid-19 and The Far Rightmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Social Media Covid-19 and The Far Rightmentioning

confidence: 96%

Covid-19 Protesters and the Far Right on Telegram: Co-Conspirators or Accidental Bedfellows?

Curley

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Carthy

2022

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“…Esta brevíssima síntese dos esforços de duas plataformas infraestruturais para desenvolver modelos de negócio capazes de fazer convergir diferentes modelos, interesses e setores nos ajuda a entender o modelo de monopólio caracterizado, como argumentam Blanke e Pybus (2020), pela descentralização de serviços e por sua integração técnica que conferem à Alphabet/Google e à Meta/Facebook um poder singular -mas não absoluto -nos ecossistemas que coordenam. O amplo reconhecimento da desinformação como uma questão de interesse público resultou, na segunda metade dos anos 2010, em diferentes movimentos que visaram identificar, denunciar e desarticular a forte vinculação entre os ecossistemas de anúncios online geridos pelas plataformas infraestruturais e as dinâmicas de produção, circulação e financiamento da desinformação.…”

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Plataformas infraestruturais e dinâmicas desinformativas: apontamentos e desafios de pesquisa

d'Andréa¹

2022

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No presente artigo, buscamos apresentar e suscitar discussões sobre as implicações conceituais – e políticas – de se compreender o fenômeno contemporâneo da desinformação a partir de sua intrínseca relação com as plataformas infraestruturais. Apoiados na visada dos Estudos de Ciência e Tecnologia (STS), apresentamos questões caras para os Estudos contemporâneos de Infraestrutura (como sua dimensão relacional e distribuída, flexibilidade, instabilidade, entre outras. Na primeira seção do artigo fazemos um breve panorama dos chamados “Estudos de Infraestrutura” e retomamos suas interfaces recentes com os Estudos de Plataforma e, de modo mais amplo, com os estudos de Comunicação e Mídia. Em seguida, apresentamos um levantamentoinicial de pesquisas que aproximam infraestruturas e desinformação para, na sequência, apresentar ediscutir mais a fundo as relações entre as lógicas tecnoeconômicas dos ecossistemas de anúnciosonline e as dinâmicas desinformativas contemporâneas. Nas considerações finais, levantamosquestões e apontamos desafios a serem enfrentados por pesquisas futuras que visam dialogar com aabordagem não reducionista que caracteriza o campo STS e a argumentação aqui apresentada.

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“…These encampments were critical for the mobilization and coordination of protests and calls for military intervention that ensued. Lula was eventually sworn in on 1 January 2023, but a week after that pro-Bolsonaro protesters stormed the offices of the Brazilian Congress, the Presidential Palace, and the Supreme Federal Court following an insurrectionist playbook similar to the January 6 United States Capitol attack that tried to overturn the result of the 2020 US presidential election (Keulenaar et al, 2023).…”

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The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil

Bastos,

Recuero

2023

Social Media + Society

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This study unpacks the 2022 Brazilian Presidential campaign marked by multiple claims of electoral fraud and calls for a coup d’état by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro. We identify the narrative frames underpinning this insurrectionist playbook by analyzing Bolsonaro’s statements during the presidential campaign. We subsequently test the penetration of this playbook on members of the Brazilian National Congress during the campaign trail and the transition of power to the opposition candidate, when pro-Bolsonaro protesters attempted to overthrow the Federal Government. Our analyses lend support to the thesis that the coup d’état was not successful due to the dwindling support beyond the hard-core Bolsonaro base. Our results also describe an insurrectionist playbook largely centered on the blueprint of false claims of electoral fraud, a playbook that can be monitored through the public statements of elected officials. We conclude with a discussion of our findings and recommendations for future research.

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Deplatforming, demotion and folk theories of Big Tech persecution

Cited by 10 publications

References 10 publications

Covid-19 Protesters and the Far Right on Telegram: Co-Conspirators or Accidental Bedfellows?

Covid-19 Protesters and the Far Right on Telegram: Co-Conspirators or Accidental Bedfellows?

Plataformas infraestruturais e dinâmicas desinformativas: apontamentos e desafios de pesquisa

The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil

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