Censorship at Scale: How Social Media Moderate Public Discourse

Troubling online expressions pose difficult questions for social media platforms. While many celebrate themselves as open spaces, they must police inappropriate speech and anti-social behavior. Tarleton Gillespie (Cornell) discusses challenges platforms face, justifications offered for their interventions, and implications of responses. Because interventions must be enacted at an enormous scale, they may depend on a logic that is fundamentally orthogonal to how users experience them.