“I’m not this Person”: Racism, content moderators, and protecting and denying voice online

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-1-2024

Abstract

Much scholarship across the humanities and social sciences seek to shed light on the intersection of far-right politics and social media platforms. Yet, scholars tend to focus on racist actors and the ideological underpinnings of platform policies while the contingencies that shape the experiences of content reviewers who make decisions about racist content remain underexamined. This article fills this gap by exploring such contingencies from a linguistic anthropological perspective. Drawing on Facebook moderators’ stories, I illustrate the factors adjacent to, and beyond, ideology that animate the adjudication of racist hate speech.

Identifier

85138360881 (Scopus)

Publication Title

New Media and Society

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221122224

e-ISSN

14617315

ISSN

14614448

First Page

4454

Last Page

4470

Issue

8

Volume

26

Grant

1928627

Fund Ref

National Science Foundation

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