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Deplatforming Right-Wing Extremists on Twitter Following the January 6 Insurrection

Abstract: What happened when Twitter deplatformed 70,000 right-wing extremists following the January 6 insurrection? Using a panel of over a half million active Twitter users and a sharp regression discontinuity design, we test the causal effects of this intervention on the circulation of misinformation by those deplatformed, and by users from adjacent groups such as...