Tagged With Content Moderation

Twitter accidentally locked GOP Rep. Devin Nunes out of his account because he failed its anti-spam filter

Tyler Sonnemaker

Technology and society 'smashed together in a head-on collision.' Mozilla Foundation surveyed the wreckage.

Tyler Sonnemaker

CEO Brian Chesky says Airbnb stopped being a 'hands-off' platform earlier than other tech companies because customers got 'physically hurt'

Tyler Sonnemaker

Facebook's 'supreme court' just made its first rulings, and reinstated 4 posts the social network had removed

Katie Canales

Twitter's new 'Birdwatch' feature will let users to sift through and add notes to misleading tweets

Katie Canales

After Trump's Twitter ban, critics want other populists like Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro and India's Narendra Modi booted from social media

Shona Ghosh

Selena Gomez emailed Sheryl Sandberg months before the Capitol siege to highlight US militia group activity on Facebook

Shona Ghosh

Parler claims in antitrust lawsuit that Amazon said it was 'definitely in this journey' with the controversial social media platform until Capitol riots

Tyler Sonnemaker

YouTube removes Trump content and bans him from uploading new videos for a minimum of 7 days, citing 'ongoing potential for violence'

Tyler Sonnemaker, Hugh Langley

Google and Apple are banning Parler from their app stores for allowing violent content in the wake of attempted insurrection that left 5 dead

Tyler Sonnemaker

Facebook reportedly told its ad reviewers to ignore fraud and hacked accounts as long as 'Facebook gets paid'

Tyler Sonnemaker

Facebook's AI-fuelled attempt to block bad ads is hurting legitimate small business owners — and its 'pay-to-play' customer support is leaving them stranded ahead of the holiday shopping season

Tyler Sonnemaker

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey are about to appear in front of Congress for a hearing on content moderation — here's how to watch

Katie Canales

TikTok has reportedly poached over 25 of Facebook's contracted moderators and hired them in-house as Facebook continues to face scrutiny for its violent content

Katie Canales

Facebook reportedly measures 'violence and incitement trends' — and it spiked by 45% during the week of the election

Tyler Sonnemaker

Twitter allows New York Post account to tweet again after contested Hunter Biden story led the company to update hacked materials policy

Tyler Sonnemaker

Facebook admits it 'improperly' blocked some political ads due to 'technical issues' as Joe Biden's campaign slams it for being 'wholly unprepared'

Tyler Sonnemaker

'It's definitely going to be more violent': A former Facebook content moderator says election results could spark violence, no matter who wins

Allana Akhtar

Facebook's much-hyped 'Supreme Court' that can overrule even CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally launched, but says it won't judge any content about the election

Paige Leskin

A Facebook contractor has reportedly contracted COVID-19 days after returning to the office, and now colleagues are worried about an outbreak

Katie Canales