content moderation

For the previous 5 weeks, 1000's of Iranians, led by brave younger girls, have taken to the streets of dozens of cities across the nation, pushed to motion by the case of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian girl who died whereas within…

Within the practically 27 years since Congress handed Part 230 of the Communications Decency Act, courts have broadly interpreted it to guard on-line communities for being legally chargeable for person content material, laying the…

When Chinese language-language misinformation seems on US platforms like YouTube or Fb, activists say it appears to get much less actively moderated than English content material, a sample that has additionally been documented for…

This community mapping may additionally establish a specific technique utilized by dangerous actors of splitting their edit histories between a lot of accounts to evade detection. The editors put within the effort to construct status and…

The world has recognized Alex Jones was responsible for defaming the dad and mom of youngsters killed at Sandy Hook Elementary for nearly a yr, since Connecticut decide Barbara Bellis issued a default judgment in opposition to the…

Christopher Bouzy is making an attempt to remain forward of the bots. Because the particular person behind Bot Sentinel, a well-liked bot-detection system, he and his workforce repeatedly replace their machine studying fashions out of…

I flip my consideration to Dublin, the place I discover Fabian (not his actual title), a former moderator who, till earlier this 12 months, labored for Twitter by way of the outsourcing firm CPL. In contrast to one other moderator I’ve…

Because the midterm election season kicks into excessive gear, platforms throughout the net will start rolling out enhanced protections to protect in opposition to digital threats to the democratic course of. Whereas each platform has…

August 5 was not a standard day for Kaicheng Yang. It was the day after a US court docket printed Elon Musk’s argument on why he ought to not have to purchase Twitter. And Yang, a PhD scholar at Indiana College, was shocked to find that…

Folks voting in Brazil’s October 2 elections have been subjected to a deluge of misinformation and disinformation on social media in current months. Researchers say that Telegram has grow to be the hub of the nation’s far proper, which…