moderation
Steam Will Start Moderating Its Forums, But Developers Can Opt Out
Valve will begin reviewing posts and making decisions about what can and can’t be posted in Steam's forums.
Valve: 'It Really Does Seem Bad Games Are Made by Bad People'
Valve shares more details about how it decides who's a 'straight up troll' publishing video games on Steam.
The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook’s Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People
Moderating billions of posts a week in more than a hundred languages has become Facebook’s biggest challenge. Leaked documents and nearly two dozen interviews show how the company hopes to solve it.
YouTube Is the Latest Platform to Delete Alex Jones’ Channels For Violating Its Guidelines
The Alex Jones Channel, followed by millions of people, has been deleted from YouTube.
Where Did the Concept of 'Shadow Banning' Come From?
It's been called shadow banning, toading, being "sent to coventry," and ghost banning—but where did it actually start?
Game Companies Can Serve Communities or Customers, But Rarely Both
An ex-moderator explains how company policies and procedures protect the worst abusers at the expense of players and employees.
Facebook Hosts Anti-Muslim Groups Despite Zuckerberg Telling Congress the Platform Doesn't Tolerate Hate
Mark Zuckerberg told Congress that Facebook does not allow hate groups on its platform, but the company still hosts anti-Muslim groups.
A Brief History of YouTube Censorship
For as long as it has existed, YouTube has been under pressure from different governments to remove a wide range of content.
One of America's Most Notorious Neo-Nazi Extremist Groups Is Posting Freely to YouTube, Steam
Bad moderation allows radical messages to spread.
A Visit to Facebook's Recently Opened Center for Deleting Content
Our tour of one of Germany's new content moderation centers gave us a look at Facebook’s content moderation—and what it means for the people who have to enforce its deletion rules.
The Reddit Moderator Getting a PhD in Online Moderation
Kat Lo is studying the largely thankless job of unpaid content moderation so we can make open and safe online communities.