Third-Person Effect and Hate Speech Censorship on Facebook

By recruiting 368 US university students, this study adopted an online posttest-only between-subjects experiment to analyze the impact of several types of hate speech on their attitudes toward hate speech censorship. Results showed that students tended to think the influence of hate speech on others...

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Published inSocial media + society Vol. 6; no. 2
Main Authors Guo, Lei, Johnson, Brett G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.04.2020
Sage Publications Ltd
SAGE Publishing
Subjects
Between-subjects design
Censorship
College students
Hate speech
Internet
Student attitudes
paternalism
third-person effect
hate speech
censorship
Facebook
speech freedom support
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Summary:By recruiting 368 US university students, this study adopted an online posttest-only between-subjects experiment to analyze the impact of several types of hate speech on their attitudes toward hate speech censorship. Results showed that students tended to think the influence of hate speech on others was greater than on themselves. Their perception of such messages’ effect on themselves was a significant indicator of supportive attitudes toward hate speech censorship and of their willingness to flag hateful messages.
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ISSN:2056-3051
2056-3051
DOI:10.1177/2056305120923003