Vice did a very interesting look into this question following the deplatforming of Alex Jones[1]. As is evident from their article title -- "Deplatforming Works

Vice did a very interesting look into this question following the deplatforming of Alex Jones[1]. As is evident from their article title -- "Deplatforming Works" -- the data seem to say it works. As for the specific concern you mention, they look into it as well: "'The good that comes with deplatforming is, their main goal was to redpill or get people within mainstream communities more in line with their beliefs, so we need to get them off those platforms,” Robyn Caplan, a PhD student at Rutgers University and Data and Society affiliate, told me on the phone. “But now we’ve put them down into their holes where they were before, and they could strengthen their beliefs and become more extreme.' The question is whether it’s more harmful to society to have many millions of people exposed to kinda hateful content or to have a much smaller number of ultra-radicalized true believers." [1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjbp9d/do-social-media-bans-work https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjbp9d/do-social-media-bans-...