Illusory interparty disagreement: Partisans agree on what hate speech to censor but do not know it
Brittany C. Solomon,
Matthew E. K. Hall,
Abigail Hemmen
et al.
Abstract:Whether and when to censor hate speech are long-standing points of contention in the US. The latest iteration of these debates entails grappling with content regulation on social media in an age of intense partisan polarization. But do partisans disagree about what types of hate speech to censor on social media or do they merely differ on how much hate speech to censor? And do they understand out-party censorship preferences? We examine these questions in a nationally representative conjoint survey experiment … Show more
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