How Facebook and Twitter Help Amplify Fringe Websites | Anti-Defamation League

To address this, Facebook and Twitter should limit the ways they are spreading hateful messages from smaller platforms. Fringe platforms like Gab and 8chan openly cater to users interested in spreading hate and conspiracies, and a considerable amount of their content would violate mainstream platforms’ terms of service. As a result, mainstream platforms must aim to decrease cross-users’ ability to recruit and spread hate, and should increase the friction for users between their platforms and fringe platforms. The former Chief Security Officer of Facebook refers to this as building a “moat.” One way this can be done is for mainstream platforms to prohibit sharing links to fringe platforms that have significant amounts of content that would violate their own community guidelines.