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Exhibit 1059

You Can't Stay Here: The Efficacy of Reddit's 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech

Exhibit 1059 ยท Peer-reviewed study

You Can't Stay Here: The Efficacy of Reddit's 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech

Study of what happened to users of two subreddits banned in 2015 under Reddit's anti-harassment policy, using hate-speech lexicons and causal inference on Reddit comment data. The authors report that many users left and that those who stayed reduced hate speech.

Source
Chandrasekharan, Pavalanathan, Srinivasan, Glynn, Eisenstein and Gilbert, Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1(CSCW)
Date
2017
Grade
Peer-reviewed
Document
https://doi.org/10.1145/3134666
Accessed
2026-11-10
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