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Bot-based collective blocklists in Twitter: the counterpublic moderation of harassment in a networked public space

R. Stuart GeigerBerkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 787-803 | Received 08 Sep 2015, Accepted 08 Feb 2016, Published online: 21 Mar 2016

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