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Twitter Has Started Researching Whether White Supremacists Belong on Twitter

Wednesday May 29, 2019. 09:26 PM , from Slashdot
Twitter is conducting in-house research to better understand how white nationalists and supremacists use the platform. From a report: The company is trying to decide, in part, whether white supremacists should be banned from the site or should be allowed to stay on the platform so their views can be debated by others, a Twitter executive told Motherboard. Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's head of trust and safety, legal and public policy, said Twitter believes 'counter-speech and conversation are a force for good, and they can act as a basis for de-radicalization, and we've seen that happen on other platforms, anecdotally.'

'So one of the things we're working with academics on is some research here to confirm that this is the case,' she added. Gadde, who, along with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, met with President Trump to discuss the 'health of the public conversation' on Twitter last month, said Twitter is working with external researchers on the work, but declined to name them, and added that the researchers are under non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). 'We're working with them specifically on white nationalism and white supremacy and radicalization online and understanding the drivers of those things; what role can a platform like Twitter play in either making that worse or making that better?' she said. 'Is it the right approach to deplatform these individuals? Is the right approach to try and engage with these individuals? How should we be thinking about this? What actually works?' she added.

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