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Study on Reddit Explores How Political Bias in Content Moderation Feeds Echo Chambers.

Newswise — Huang and his collaborators, Ross School of Business PhD graduate Jangwon Choi and University of Michigan graduate Yuqin Wan , study the popular social media site Reddit to explore how subreddit moderator biases in content removal decisions of over a hundred independent communities help create echo chambers.

User-driven content moderation plays a key role in combating toxicity and establishing community norms in online spaces.

Platforms can look to this research and take inspiration from our methodology in categorizing content and quantifying political leaning and bias.

We ask platforms to provide clear guidelines around what constitutes appropriate versus inappropriate reasons for content removal.

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