About the Authors
- Benjamin Mako Hill
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Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Mako Hill, Aaron Shaw
* E-mail: mako@mit.edu
Affiliations Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Aaron Shaw
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Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Mako Hill, Aaron Shaw
Affiliations Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
BMH serves on the advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation as an unpaid advisor. The Wikimedia Foundation is one of the co-creators of the dataset which the authors analyze in this paper. The authors were not involved, in any way, in the creation or collection of the survey and do not believe BMH's role as advisor had any effect on the nature of this research. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BMH AS. Performed the experiments: BMH AS. Analyzed the data: BMH AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BMH AS. Wrote the paper: BMH AS.