content moderation
Social Media Is Broken, But You Should Still Report Hate
Users shouldn’t feel obligated to help Facebook, Twitter, and other social media giants police hate. But experts say it’s still worthwhile.
Leaked Documents Show How Instagram Polices Stories
Motherboard has obtained internal documents that show how Instagram moderators grapple to police the service's popular Stories feature.
TikTok Has a Nazi Problem
TikTok, which is mega popular with children and teens, has a problem with blatant, violent white supremacy and Nazism.
TikTok, the App Super Popular With Kids, Has a Nudes Problem
TikTok is seen as being child-friendly. But a section of the social media platform is dedicated to hunting for nude images from its underage users.
86 Organizations Demand Zuckerberg to Improve Takedown Appeals
Facebook is heeding criticism for its content takedown and account deactivation appeals process, which was initiated alongside the company’s expanding content moderation practices.
Content Moderator Sues Facebook, Says Job Gave Her PTSD
In the class action lawsuit, the woman says that thousands of content moderators are subjected to "highly toxic" content as part of the job.
John Oliver Calls Facebook 'a Fetid Swamp of Mistruths and Outright Lies'
Oliver goes long on Facebook's content moderation problems.
Facebook Is Reviewing its Policy on White Nationalism After Motherboard Investigation, Civil Rights Backlash
"Facebook ignores centuries of history, legal precedent, and expert scholarship that all establish that white nationalism and white separatism are white supremacy."
EU Passes Controversial Copyright Law With ‘Link Taxes’
Lawmakers exempted non-commercial and smaller platforms from the directive, but opponents of the law still worry that it will lead to greater censorship on the internet.
Manafort's Daughter's Lawyers Pressured Twitter to Delete Links to Hacked Text Messages
In July, a freedom of information activist dumped an unredacted cache of text messages allegedly hacked from Manafort's daughter's phone.
Journalists Are Not Social Media Platforms’ Unpaid Content Moderators
During a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted how much the platform relies on reports from journalists on to counter offending content on the site.
Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name is 'Butts'
The “Scunthorpe problem” has never really been solved and for people with "offensive" last names, this can be a real pain in the ass.