Platform Censorship

Platform Censorship is a systematic practice of content regulation in which digital intermediaries, as private actors, selectively restrict, remove, or suppress user-generated expression based on institutional policies, technical affordances, or external pressures, thereby exercising editorial control over public discourse within their governed environments.

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5.3K

Citations

169

Authors

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Publications per year

2017–2026

Parents

Censorship

Publications

Algorithmic content moderation: Technical and political challenges in the automation of platform governance

Robert Gorwa, Reuben Binns, Christian Katzenbach · Big Data & Society · 2020 · 933 citations · Full text

Public Affairs, Computer Science, Public Policy +17

Censored, suspended, shadowbanned: User interpretations of content moderation on social media platforms

Sarah Myers West · New Media & Society · 2018 · 461 citations

Social Sciences, Communication, Sociology +17

Publius: a robust, tamper-evident, censorship-resistant web publishing system

Marc Waldman, Aviel D. Rubin, Lorrie Faith Cranor · 2000 · 283 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Cybersecurity +15

Multiple public spheres of Weibo: a typology of forms and potentials of online public spheres in China

Adrian Rauchfleisch, Mike S. Schäfer · Information Communication & Society · 2014 · 228 citations

Social Sciences, Communication, Political Communication +15

Platform governance at the margins: Social media creators’ experiences with algorithmic (in)visibility

Brooke Duffy, Colten Meisner · Media Culture & Society · 2022 · 226 citations

Social Sciences, Communication, Digital Culture Studies +16

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Authors

169

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Roya Ensafi
University of Michigan, United States
4 publications · 217 citations
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Vern Paxson
International Computer Science Institute, United States
3 publications · 267 citations
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Carolina Are
Northumbria University, United Kingdom
3 publications · 88 citations
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Robert Gorwa
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2 publications · 1.1K citations
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Blake Miller
University of Michigan, United States
2 publications · 107 citations
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Venues

New Media & Society
8 publications · 690 citations
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SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 6 publications · 202 citations
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Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
3 publications · 231 citations
3
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Media Culture & Society
2 publications · 269 citations
2
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Information Communication & Society
ICS · 2 publications · 281 citations
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