Crowdsourcing the Mitigation of disinformation and misinformation: The case of spontaneous community-based moderation on Reddit

Examines Reddit's upvote/downvote ranking as a naturally occurring community defense against misinformation, focusing on climate-change discussions. Low-credibility content is spontaneously downranked by users, though the effect varies across subreddits, and removal rates fluctuate in context-dependent patterns influenced by platform policies and socio-political factors.