Collaborate Disseminate
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. Continue reading The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook’s Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People
The Alex Jones Channel, followed by millions of people, has been deleted from YouTube. Continue reading YouTube Is the Latest Platform to Delete Alex Jones’ Channels For Violating Its Guidelines
It’s been called shadow banning, toading, being “sent to coventry,” and ghost banning—but where did it actually start? Continue reading Where Did the Concept of ‘Shadow Banning’ Come From?
Bad moderation allows radical messages to spread. Continue reading One of America’s Most Notorious Neo-Nazi Extremist Groups Is Posting Freely to YouTube, Steam
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. Continue reading A Visit to Facebook’s Recently Opened Center for Deleting Content
Kat Lo is studying the largely thankless job of unpaid content moderation so we can make open and safe online communities. Continue reading The Reddit Moderator Getting a PhD in Online Moderation
“I am one of my clients.” Continue reading Carrie Goldberg Is Fighting Revenge Porn One Court Case at a Time
YouTube is enlisting “Heroes” for its new program to moderate comments, flag objectionable content and make the site “better for everyone”. Continue reading YouTube is cleaning up and it wants your help!
Periscope livestreaming is real-time, unfiltered and open. Moderation has to be just as nimble, the thinking goes. Continue reading Periscope trolls now subject to flash mob jury of their peers