

The research reported here follows certain of these Internet celebrities to Telegram as well as to a larger alternative social media ecology. Deplatforming has prompted debate about ‘liberal big tech’ silencing free speech and taking on the role of editors, but also about the questions of whether it is effective and for whom.

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