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A coalition of civil society groups wants social media companies to re-invest in human content moderation and commit to holding bad actors accountable.
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Despite the content moderator’s best efforts, the shooter’s manifesto and video of the attacks are still proliferating across social media. Continue reading Facebook Struggles to Keep Buffalo Shooting Video Offline
Despite the content moderator’s best efforts, the shooter’s manifesto and video of the attacks are still proliferating across social media. Continue reading Facebook Struggles to Keep Buffalo Shooting Video Offline
Zuckerberg is in Brussels right in time for the European Commission’s release of its manifesto on regulating AI. Continue reading Facebook asks to be regulated kinda like a newspaper, kinda like telco
The big social networks and video games have failed to prioritize user well-being over their own growth. As a result, society is losing the battle against bullying, predators, hate speech, misinformation and scammers. Typically when a whole class of tech companies have a dire problem they can’t cost-effectively solve themselves, a software-as-a-service emerges to fill […] Continue reading AntiToxin sells safetytech to clean up poisoned platforms
A Twitter employee who works on machine learning believes that a proactive, algorithmic solution to white supremacy would also catch Republican politicians. Continue reading Why Won’t Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too.
The videos on Facebook and Instagram show sections of the raw Christchurch attack footage, and variations continue to thwart Facebook’s moderators and technology. Continue reading 36 Days After Christchurch, Terrorist Attack Videos Are Still on Facebook
It took 29 minutes for a Facebook user to first report the livestream of the Christchurch terrorist. Now a machine learning system spots weapons in the stream with an over 90 percent confidence rating. Continue reading Machine Learning Identifies Weapons in the Christchurch Attack Video. We Know, We Tried It
A leaked Facebook document gives more detail on the type of firearm parts that the social network does not allow people to sell peer-to-peer. Continue reading Gun Sellers Are Advertising on Instagram and Directing Customers to Encrypted Chat Apps
Following a Motherboard investigation, Facebook banned white nationalism and white separatism. But Twitter and YouTube, two platforms with their own nationalism problems, won’t commit to following Facebook’s lead. Continue reading Twitter and YouTube Won’t Commit to Ban White Nationalism After Facebook Makes Policy Switch