Ludo Gorzeman

• Utrecht University

In this article we describe our five-year research project on the notorious radical free speech service and fringe platform Gab. During these years we scraped an entire platform, prepared it into a dataset for analysis, and opened it up to a broader community of students and researchers. Each of these projects provides us not just with a small slic...

Cite as: de Winkel, T., Salazar Landeros, M., Gorzeman, L. & Blekkenhorst, M. (June 28th 2019) “Hosting radical-fuelled periphery networks: Investigating the fringe platform Gab.ai”. Project presented at 15th International Conference of Sociocybernetics “Dark Ages 2.0”: Social Media And Their Impact, University of Urbino, Italy

This special issue of Internet Policy Review is the first to bring together the best policy-oriented papers presented at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers(AoIR). This issue is anchored in the 2017 conference in Tartu, Estonia, which was organisedaround the theme of networked publics. The seven papers span issues conce...

The ‘right to be forgotten’ has been labelled censorship and disastrous for the freedom of expression. In this paper, we explain that effecting the ‘right to be forgotten’ with regard to search results is ‘censorship’ at the level of information retrieval. We however claim it is the least heavy yet most effective means to get the minimum amount of...