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American democracy is in trouble. According to Freedom House, “the United States’ aggregate Freedom in the World score has declined by 11 points,” from 94 to 83
Executive Summary The ever-increasing amount of user-generated content online has led, in recent years, to an expansion in research and investment in automated content analysis tools. Scrutiny of automated content analysis has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, as social networking services have placed a greater reliance on these tools due to concerns about health risks […]
Servers have to be labeled if they’re focused on "NSFW themes."
I’m excited to share my latest paper, called “Content Moderation Remedies.” I’ve been working on this project 2+ years, and this is the first time I’m sharing the draft publicly. I think many of you will find it interesting, so...
This Article addresses a critical but underexplored topic of “platform” law: if a user’s online content or actions violate the rules, what should happen next? T
Solving podcast moderation won’t be easy.
The toxicity of the social media platforms has been evident for a long time, and continuing to participate in it now feels like a choice we all have to make.
Differences between American and European approaches shouldn’t prevent us from finding common ground on other functional aspects of platform regulation.
Regulation to curb hateful content online cannot begin and end with platform governance. Platforms are part of a larger online media ecosystem.
Good read for the 601 "bullshit" assignment.
The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves.
A departing Facebook employee said the social network's failure to act on hate speech “makes it embarrassing to work here.”
Mother Jones editors said their traffic from Facebook had plummeted
An internet deep-dive into the origins of Usenet's provocatively-named alt.binaries.images.underwater.non-violent.moderated newsgroup.
As a news organization, it is essential that you have an appropriate comments strategy alongside the rest of your elections coverage.
Pinterest has taken a hardline strategy against health misinformation, and in particular, vaccine falsehoods.
On the morning of August 23, 2020, President Trump tweeted misleading information about mail-in voting and ballot drop-off boxes. The claims in the tweet violated Twitter’s relatively new Civic integrity policy, and the platform took action on his post. In this data-driven post we first examine the
FFS Facebook you utter menace
Volunteer moderators keep online communities humming, but the realities of 2020 are making their jobs harder than ever.
Facebook’s employees and fact-checking partners say they are left in the dark about how the company decides what content stays up and what comes down.