A concern among content moderation researchers is that hard moderation measures, such as banning content producers, will push users to more extreme information environments. Research in this area is still new, but predominately focuses on one-way migration (from mainstream to alt-tech) due to this concern. However, content producers on alt-tech social media platforms are not always banned users from mainstream platforms, instead they may be co-active across platforms. We explore co-activity on two such platforms: YouTube and BitChute. Specifically, we describe differences in video production across 27 co-active channels. We find that the majority of channels use significantly more moral and political words in their video titles on BitChute than in their video titles on YouTube. However, the reasoning for this shift seems to be different across channels. In some cases, we find that channels produce videos on different sets of topics across the platforms, often producing content on BitChute that would likely be moderated on YouTube. In rare cases, we find video titles of the same video change across the platforms. Overall, there is not a consistent trend across co-active channels in our sample, suggesting that the production on alt-tech social media platforms does not fit a single narrative.
翻译:内容温和的研究人员关注的是,禁止内容制作者等硬性温和措施会将用户推向更极端的信息环境。这个领域的研究仍然是新的,但主要侧重于单向迁移(从主流到阿尔特科技 ) 。然而,高科技社交媒体平台上的内容制作者并非总禁止主流平台的用户,而是他们在整个平台上共同活动。我们在YouTube和BitChute这两个平台上探索了共同活动。具体地说,我们描述了27个合作频道的视频制作差异。我们发现大多数频道在Bitchute的视频标题中使用的道德和政治词比在YouTube的视频标题使用得要多得多。然而,这种转变的理由似乎在不同渠道之间有所不同。在某些情况下,我们发现频道制作不同平台上的不同主题的视频,常常在Bitchute上制作内容,这些内容在YouTube上可能会受到调控。在极少数情况下,我们发现不同平台的视频变化的视频标题。总体说,我们抽样的视频频道没有一致的趋势,表明在高科技社会媒体平台上制作并不适合单一叙述。</s>