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November 19, 2016 07:03 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bg1QelFfAlM/twitterbot-experiment-suggests.html
Twitterbot experiment suggests that public disapproval by white men can reduce harassers' use of racist language
NYU PhD candidate Kevin Munger made a set of four male-seeming twitterbots that attempted to "socially sanction" white Twitter users who habitually used racial epithets (he reasons that these two characteristics are a good proxy for harassment): the bots could be white or black (that is, have names that have been experimentally shown to be associated with "whiteness" or "blackness") and could have 2 followers or 500 of them. (more…)
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bg1QelFfAlM/twitterbot-experiment-suggests.html
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