Online personalities like Andrew Tate are using social media to amplify their misogynist and anti-woman rhetoric. Social media companies deplatforming them can cut them off from followers and revenue.
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Combating vaccine misinformation on social media requires blocking sources of misinformation – and giving researchers access to data about how misinformation spreads.
Deplatformed groups can all too easily flock to alternative platforms to coordinate.
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University, Canada
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Lecturer in Social Media, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management, University of Connecticut
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of Complexity Science, City, University of London
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Postdoctoral Fellow in International Network on Technology, Work, and Family, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
