icymi: This week in content moderation saw increased scrutiny of Clubhouse, the invite-only voice-chat social media network that now counts at least 2 million users — and growing around the world https://twitter.com/firstadopter/status/1355935281787117568?s=20
As it appears that figures such as Roger Stone — connected to the “Stop the Steal” disinformation campaign — have joined, there are qs about how Clubhouse will tackle misinformation. Harassment and hate speech have also been flagged as an issue https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/the-murky-world-of-moderation-on-clubhouse
In other news, TikTok rolled out a new label for videos containing unsubstantiated claims. This insightful thread from @tommyshane goes over why label design matters https://twitter.com/tommyshane/status/1357385093514461184
Birdwatch, Twitter's "community-based approach" to misinformation, has been running for a week. @mdywebb and I put together a primer on the program, which includes some early analysis from the published data https://firstdraftnews.org/latest/what-is-birdwatch/
The data allows researchers (US-based for now) to draw some pretty interesting real-time observations — see this from @mdywebb for example, who also has a great thread on how to investigate it!
https://twitter.com/mdywebb/status/1357394555566501889?s=20
