Counterfactual Comments: A Cross-Platform Causal Design for Comment Toxicity
Dates: – Present | Status: Ongoing | Location: Princeton University
Collaborators: Mehedi Zaman, Francesco Salvi, Jason Greenfield, Manoel Horta Ribeiro
This project investigates the causal effect of early comment-thread toxicity on subsequent toxicity, using a novel identification strategy to isolate toxicity spillover from content-level confounding.