ArticleEPJ data science2025
Safe spaces or toxic places? Content moderation and social dynamics of online eating disorder communities.
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- Care approaches for people with longstanding eating disorders: a lived experience perspective on the need for recovery-fostering care.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Moralised Eating and Identity Work in Digital Wellness Culture: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Orthorexia-Related Narratives.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2026Article
- Computational analysis and automated classification of eating disorder discourse on Twitter's EDTWT community.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- TikTok and Instagram as Putative Social Media in Promoting Healthy Eating Habits in Youths At-Risk for Eating/Feeding Disorders and Body Image Dissatisfaction.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Thigh gaps and filtered snaps: a qualitative study exploring opportunities to mitigate social media harm through content moderation for people with eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- MODIT: MOtif DIscovery in Temporal Networks.Frontiers in big data · 2021Article
- Motivations and deterrents for posting and responding to online self-harm content: A qualitative survey study.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
Social media platforms have become critical spaces for discussing mental health concerns, including eating disorders. While these platforms can provide valuable support networks, they may also amplify harmful content that glorifies disordered cognition and self-destructive behaviors. While social media platforms have implemented various content moderation strategies, from stringent to laissez-faire approaches, we lack a comprehensive understanding of how these different moderation practices interact with user engagement in online communities around these sensitive mental health topics. This study addresses this knowledge gap through a comparative analysis of eating disorder discussions across Twitter/X (2.6M tweets), Reddit (178K submissions), and TikTok (14K videos) spanning from 2019-2023. Our findings reveal that while users across all platforms engage similarly in expressing concerns and seeking support, platforms with weaker moderation (like Twitter/X) enable the formation of toxic echo chambers that amplify pro-anorexia rhetoric. These results demonstrate how moderation strategies significantly influence the development and impact of online communities, particularly in contexts involving mental health and self-harm.
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