📢 A new report from the ADL Center on Tech & Society finds deplatforming extremist websites reduces online hate and harassment. A 🧵 for #SaferInternetDay.
Our research shows that it’s harder for extremists to spread their ideologies, recruit adherents, and profit from hateful content without their websites. And it shows how unexpected deplatforming makes it difficult for extremist websites to build and retain followers.
Infrastructure providers, or companies that offer services such as website hosting, domain registration, or payment processing, are poorly understood aspects of the internet. Our new report looks closer at these companies flying under the radar for serving extremist platforms.
Up until now, there has only been anecdotal evidence about deplatforming. ADL Belfer Fellow Megan Squire shares her data in the new report, which analyzes sites such as 8chan and The Daily Stormer and the impact of deplatforming. adl.org/resources/repo…
These companies have escaped scrutiny for too long. Fill out our form and ask these companies to step up and ensure they are not helping extremists reach new audiences with hate and harassment. adl.salsalabs.org/badgateway 
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