#Moderation

bethan jhn

bethanjhn

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

Martin Johannes Riedl

martinriedl

New research out in @icsjournal!Together with @kelseynwhipple and @utwallace, I looked at relationships between support for content moderation and platform regulation & presumed effects of social media on self+others through

Robby Soave

robbysoave

The dilemma, over and over again: Republicans want Facebook and Twitter to censor less content, Democrats want them to censor more content. But all sides seem to agree that it's

Heather Burns

WebDevLaw

The 'blame the internet' narrative has crashed into the reality of a protected class which has the privilege to plan a terrorist act in the open, march unimpeded into the

Jay Owens

hautepop

Incidentally, Substack CEO Chris Best appeared today with Parler CEO John Matze on the Megyn Kelly Show, to discuss “tech censorship, President Trump's ban from Twitter, the rise of independent

Gab.com

getongab

The @ADL is allegedly taking screenshots of threats on Gab and running to the press saying "gotcha." They should immediately be flagging these posts so that our moderation team can

Paul Frazee✌️

pfrazee

Yo, decentralizers. If our projects are ONLY about censorship resistance and NOT about better algorithms for elevating truth, and NOT about creating constrained but real powers of moderation, then we're

Tatiana Estévez

Tatiana_Estevez

The internet sucks for women. It’s not just obvious harassment and hate. It’s also the hostile, subtle, passive-aggressive misogynistic conversation tactics used by men — mansplaining, microaggressions, sealioning, gaslighting, endles

Jeff Kosseff

jkosseff

Lots of thinkpieces about Section 230 these days. More discussion of 230 is excellent, but many of the pieces contain misstatements about 230 and the First Amendment. Those takes are

crash override

donk_enby

RELEASE: Every Parler post made during the 06/01/2021 US Capitol riots. https://donk.sh/06d639b2-0252-4b1e-883b-f275eff7e792/ (batches of 100k URLs, for archival purposes) I wasn't going to put this out so soon, but since

Amir

amir_ccoms315

1/5 The episode "Nosedive" presents a Utopian society through a social status lens. One attains success via ratings by colleagues, friends and family. Maintaining a high rating allows individuals to

Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥

senatorshoshana

.@markweinstein, founder of @mewe in @WSJ: Small Sites Need Section 230 to Compete - Facebook and Twitter can afford armies of lawyers to defend against liability. https://www.wsj.com/articles/small-sites-need-section-230-to-compete-1161160

Tarleton Gillespie

TarletonG

In a recent piece I called this “stacked moderation”. Platforms or other intermediaries “below” platforms that can demand standards of moderation.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/technology/parler-apple-google.html "Moderatio

Jason Finger

jasonhfinger

Obviously this is Trump's fault. But the tech platforms are equally at fault. @Twitter @Facebook and the others allow false information to spread through their platforms all because they claim

Barrie Sander

Barrie_Sander

Biggest misconception about human rights-based approach to content moderation is that it will provide a set of answers. In fact, its value resides in more modestly providing a structured framework

Major Acidman

MarkAdamcin

The fact that Apple conditioned Parler's access to the App Store on adding content moderation is another hint that this is a coordinated industry defense of Section 230, opportunistically engaged

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