Norms are a foundational concept in sociology. Following a period of skepticism about
norms as overly deterministic and as paying too little attention to social conflict, inequalities …

Social norms have been investigated across many disciplines for many years, but until
recently, studies mainly provided indirect, implicit and correlational support for the role of …

We use an experiment across the Arab Twittersphere and a nationally representative survey
experiment in Lebanon to evaluate what types of counter-speech interventions are most …

Once relegated to the dark corners of the Internet, online hate speech has become
increasingly visible on mainstream social media platforms. From targeted anti-Semitic …

Citizen-generated counter speech is a promising way to fight hate speech and promote
peaceful, non-polarized discourse. However, there is a lack of large-scale longitudinal …

Hateful rhetoric is plaguing online discourse, fostering extreme societal movements and
possibly giving rise to real-world violence. A potential solution to this growing global …

Social norms against prejudice are widespread and generally supported by society, yet
examples of bigotry are often found. I propose that anti-prejudice norms can quickly erode …

Online discussions are performed in the gaze of fellow users. To increase engagement,
platforms typically let these users evaluate the comments made by others through rating …

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 …

Abstract The Economics of Content Moderation: Theory and Experimental Evidence from
Hate Speech on Twitter Rafael Jimenez-Duran University of Chicago November 2022 New …