Open letter from Facebook content moderators re: pandemic
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Reddit quarantined: Can changing platform affordances reduce hateful material online?
4 votes -
Reddit worries it’s going to be crushed in the fight against Big Tech
16 votes -
Reddit announces "Predictions" - Allowing users to bet on the outcomes of polls with Coins (purchased with real money), where moderators are responsible for choosing which option wins
38 votes -
Facebook's Supreme Court arrives
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Twitter won’t let The New York Post tweet until it agrees to behave itself
13 votes -
Facebook and Twitter take unusual steps to limit spread of New York Post story
16 votes -
Why Facebook can't fix itself - The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation, but the company's strategy seems focused on managing perception of the problem instead of addressing it
14 votes -
Facebook is updating their hate speech policy to prohibit and remove Holocaust Denial content
16 votes -
Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well
22 votes -
Content moderation best practices for startups
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Content moderation case study: Nextdoor faces criticism from volunteer moderators over its support of Black Lives Matter (June 2020)
7 votes -
Reddit moderator accounts compromised in coordinated hack, hundreds of subreddits vandalized
29 votes -
Facebook fired an employee who collected evidence of right-wing pages getting preferential treatment
14 votes -
Facebook has an internal simulation of the site populated entirely by bots that they're using to test the effects of possible changes
8 votes -
Reddit releases their new content policy along with banning hundreds of subreddits, including /r/The_Donald and /r/ChapoTrapHouse
85 votes -
Facebook creates fact-checking exemption for climate deniers
17 votes -
Facebook vowed to investigate horrific abuse by anti-vaxxers. Nine months later, no one was penalized.
10 votes -
Twitter labels Donald Trump video tweet as "manipulated media" as it cracks down on misinformation
13 votes -
Twitter starts rolling out audio tweets on iOS
7 votes -
Reddit is finally facing its legacy of racism
45 votes -
CDA Section 230 explained: The important and often-misunderstood legal foundation of the social internet
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Facebook groups are falling apart with drama, infighting, and deleted comments about Black Lives Matter posts
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One Twitter account is reposting everything Trump tweets. It was suspended within three days
34 votes -
Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for 'glorifying violence'
20 votes -
Zuckerberg dismisses fact-checking after bragging about fact-checking
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Twitter allows new tweets to restrict replies to "everyone, people you follow, or only people you mention"
14 votes -
Will Facebook’s oversight board actually hold the company accountable?
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Reddit removes new chat room feature after one day in the wake of moderator protests and bugs
33 votes -
Facebook approved ads with coronavirus misinformation, in an experiment which raises questions about how the social media giant screens ads on its platform
8 votes -
YouTube has banned all conspiracy theory videos falsely linking coronavirus symptoms to 5G networks
26 votes -
The difficulties of moderating COVID-19 misinformation when even statements from official sources are questionable
7 votes -
Internal TikTok policies instructed moderators to suppress videos featuring unattractive, disabled, or poor people so they wouldn't scare off new users, as well as to remove specific types of content
21 votes -
Reddit's 2019 Transparency Report
15 votes -
YouTube moderators are being required to sign a statement acknowledging the job could give them PTSD
26 votes -
Sweet Anita on Tourette's racial slur controversy
11 votes -
The terror queue - Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that's giving them PTSD
13 votes -
TikTok curbed reach for people with disabilities
16 votes -
Inside the hate factory: how Facebook fuels far-right profit
12 votes -
Facebook includes Breitbart in new 'high quality' news tab
31 votes -
Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: content moderation at scale is impossible to do well
10 votes -
Reddit’s automoderator is the future of the internet, and deeply imperfect | The good: AutoMod saves time and prevents potential mental health issues. The bad: Humans still have to clean up after it.
21 votes -
Facebook and Instagram ban usage of "commonly sexual emojis" along with solicitations for nude images or sex
10 votes -
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's prepared remarks for congressional hearing about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
16 votes -
Facebook has taken down the huge "Police Lives Matter" page after being revealed as a Kosovo-based operation pushing misinformation about US cops
23 votes -
Twitch's latest crackdowns on 'sexual' content are leaving streamers baffled
13 votes -
More control over your conversations now available in Japan and the US
3 votes -
Reddit is testing warnings when submitting to highly-moderated subreddits and encouraging users to post in other subreddits
39 votes -
Twitch suspends popular leftist streamer after controversial 9/11 comments
19 votes -
'Where's the line of free speech – are you removing voices that should be heard?': As YouTube struggles with extreme content, Susan Wojcicki talks about her role as the internet’s gatekeeper
11 votes