Content Moderation
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Anonymous Social App Fizz Sees Rapid Rise In Saudi Arabia Debut
Anonymous social app Fizz has surged to the top of Saudi Arabia's app charts, but its expansion raises questions about content moderation and free speech in a tightly regulated environment.
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"Really Shameful": Biden Slams Meta Decision To End US Fact-Checking
US President Joe Biden on Friday condemned tech giant Meta's "shameful" decision to end its third-party fact-checking program in the United States.
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Meta Now Lets Users Say Women Are "Household Objects", Trans People Have "Mental Illness"
Facebook's parent company Meta has announced a series of sweeping changes in its content moderation policies, including doing away with professional fact-checking and restrictions on controversial remarks.
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Twitter Said to Make Deeper Cuts Into Teams Handling Global Content Moderation and Misinformation
Twitter is said to have made deeper cuts across the company's content moderation and misinformation policy teams, including workers in the firm's Dublin and Singapore offices. The microblogging service that was acquired by Elon Musk last year eliminated roles in areas of the company that didn’t get enough “volume” to justify continued support...
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Twitter Under Elon Musk Leaning on Automation to Moderate Content Against Hate Speech
Elon Musk's Twitter is dependent heavily on automation to moderate content, doing away with certain manual reviews and favouring restrictions on distribution rather than removing certain speech outright, its new head of trust and safety told Reuters. Her comments come as researchers are reporting a surge in hate speech on the social media service.
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Facebook Parent Meta's Oversight Board Can Now Apply Warning Screens to Moderate Content
Meta Platforms' independent oversight board said on Thursday that starting this month, it can decide on applying warning screens, marking content as "disturbing" or "sensitive". The board, which already has the ability to review user appeals to remove content, said it would be able to make binding decisions to apply a warning screen when "leaving u...
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Spotify Acquires Content Moderation Firm Kinzen to Detect Harmful Content on the Platform
Audio-streaming service Spotify Technology on Wednesday said it had acquired Kinzen, a firm that has helped it identify harmful content on the platform. The acquisition is part of Spotify’s efforts to deal with harmful content on its service after a backlash earlier this year.
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Twitter to Provide More Data to Research Groups Studying Content Moderation
Twitter plans to provide more data to external researchers who study online misinformation and moderation, the social media company said on Thursday, part of what it says is an effort to increase transparency on the platform.
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India to Decide on Appeals Panel With Authority to Reverse Social Media’s Content Moderation
The government is weighing on setting up an appeals panel with the power to reverse the content moderation decisions of social media firms, the information technology ministry said. It will be the first such move of its kind worldwide.
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Facebook Is Now Using AI to Help Human Moderators Identify Posts That Need Review
Facebook is deploying machine learning algorithms and relying more on artificial intelligence (AI) to improve its content moderation and priority reported content on its platform. Additionally, Facebook is expanding its Rights Manager to let page admins on its platform and Instagram start submitting copyright protection applications.
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TikTok Proposes Social Media Coalition to Curb Harmful Content
TikTok has proposed a global coalition of social media firms for early identification and removal of harmful content, the company said on Tuesday.
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Amazon's Livestreaming Platform Twitch Announces Safety Advisory Council
The council includes Dr. Sameer Hinduja, the co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center, sociologist TL Taylor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) whose research focuses on online gaming, Alex Holmes, the deputy CEO at UK-based youth charity The Diana Award, and Emma Llansó, the director of the Center for Democracy and Technol...
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Facebook to Pay $52 Million Settlement for Trauma to Content Reviewers
Facebook has agreed to a $52 million court settlement to compensate content moderators who suffered mental trauma from the graphic and violent images they were required to review, plaintiff lawyers said Tuesday.
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Facebook Names First Members of Oversight Board That Can Overrule CEO Zuckerberg
Facebook has long faced criticism for high-profile content moderation issues. They range from temporarily removing a famous Vietnam-era war photo of a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack, to failing to combat hate speech in Myanmar against the Rohingya and other Muslims.
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Facebook Sued Over "Exposure To Disturbing Images" That Caused Trauma
A former Facebook content moderator is suing the company on the grounds that reviewing disturbing material on a daily basis caused her psychological and physical harm, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in a California superior court.
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Anonymous Social App Fizz Sees Rapid Rise In Saudi Arabia Debut
Anonymous social app Fizz has surged to the top of Saudi Arabia's app charts, but its expansion raises questions about content moderation and free speech in a tightly regulated environment.
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"Really Shameful": Biden Slams Meta Decision To End US Fact-Checking
US President Joe Biden on Friday condemned tech giant Meta's "shameful" decision to end its third-party fact-checking program in the United States.
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Meta Now Lets Users Say Women Are "Household Objects", Trans People Have "Mental Illness"
Facebook's parent company Meta has announced a series of sweeping changes in its content moderation policies, including doing away with professional fact-checking and restrictions on controversial remarks.
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Twitter Said to Make Deeper Cuts Into Teams Handling Global Content Moderation and Misinformation
Twitter is said to have made deeper cuts across the company's content moderation and misinformation policy teams, including workers in the firm's Dublin and Singapore offices. The microblogging service that was acquired by Elon Musk last year eliminated roles in areas of the company that didn’t get enough “volume” to justify continued support...
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Twitter Under Elon Musk Leaning on Automation to Moderate Content Against Hate Speech
Elon Musk's Twitter is dependent heavily on automation to moderate content, doing away with certain manual reviews and favouring restrictions on distribution rather than removing certain speech outright, its new head of trust and safety told Reuters. Her comments come as researchers are reporting a surge in hate speech on the social media service.
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Facebook Parent Meta's Oversight Board Can Now Apply Warning Screens to Moderate Content
Meta Platforms' independent oversight board said on Thursday that starting this month, it can decide on applying warning screens, marking content as "disturbing" or "sensitive". The board, which already has the ability to review user appeals to remove content, said it would be able to make binding decisions to apply a warning screen when "leaving u...
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Spotify Acquires Content Moderation Firm Kinzen to Detect Harmful Content on the Platform
Audio-streaming service Spotify Technology on Wednesday said it had acquired Kinzen, a firm that has helped it identify harmful content on the platform. The acquisition is part of Spotify’s efforts to deal with harmful content on its service after a backlash earlier this year.
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Twitter to Provide More Data to Research Groups Studying Content Moderation
Twitter plans to provide more data to external researchers who study online misinformation and moderation, the social media company said on Thursday, part of what it says is an effort to increase transparency on the platform.
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India to Decide on Appeals Panel With Authority to Reverse Social Media’s Content Moderation
The government is weighing on setting up an appeals panel with the power to reverse the content moderation decisions of social media firms, the information technology ministry said. It will be the first such move of its kind worldwide.
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Facebook Is Now Using AI to Help Human Moderators Identify Posts That Need Review
Facebook is deploying machine learning algorithms and relying more on artificial intelligence (AI) to improve its content moderation and priority reported content on its platform. Additionally, Facebook is expanding its Rights Manager to let page admins on its platform and Instagram start submitting copyright protection applications.
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TikTok Proposes Social Media Coalition to Curb Harmful Content
TikTok has proposed a global coalition of social media firms for early identification and removal of harmful content, the company said on Tuesday.
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Amazon's Livestreaming Platform Twitch Announces Safety Advisory Council
The council includes Dr. Sameer Hinduja, the co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center, sociologist TL Taylor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) whose research focuses on online gaming, Alex Holmes, the deputy CEO at UK-based youth charity The Diana Award, and Emma Llansó, the director of the Center for Democracy and Technol...
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Facebook to Pay $52 Million Settlement for Trauma to Content Reviewers
Facebook has agreed to a $52 million court settlement to compensate content moderators who suffered mental trauma from the graphic and violent images they were required to review, plaintiff lawyers said Tuesday.
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Facebook Names First Members of Oversight Board That Can Overrule CEO Zuckerberg
Facebook has long faced criticism for high-profile content moderation issues. They range from temporarily removing a famous Vietnam-era war photo of a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack, to failing to combat hate speech in Myanmar against the Rohingya and other Muslims.
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Facebook Sued Over "Exposure To Disturbing Images" That Caused Trauma
A former Facebook content moderator is suing the company on the grounds that reviewing disturbing material on a daily basis caused her psychological and physical harm, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in a California superior court.
