Tagged With Moderation

Pornhub purges millions of unverified videos amid allegation of hosting child pornography

Ben Gilbert

Facebook's nudity-spotting AI mistook a photo of some onions for 'sexually suggestive' content

Isobel Asher Hamilton

Facebook isn't just banning political ads — it will also remove posts with 'content that seeks to intimidate voters'

Ben Gilbert

TikTok's struggles to delete a video of an apparent suicide show its powerful algorithm can spread pernicious content fast

Chris Stokel-Walker

YouTube took down twice as many videos as usual from April to June because the pandemic forced it to rely on moderation algorithms

Isobel Asher Hamilton

Facebook and Instagram are finally policing QAnon conspiracy theory groups and other movements that pose 'significant risks to public safety'

Ben Gilbert

Trump's Twitch channel was reinstated two weeks after being suspended for violating 'hateful conduct' policies

Ben Gilbert

Facebook's refusal to fact-check or moderate politicians like President Trump is its biggest civil rights issue, according to a new internal audit

Ben Gilbert

How to 'mod' someone on Twitch, and appoint them as a moderator for your channel

Emma Witman

Mark Zuckerberg is being criticised by the scientists he funds as he refuses to moderate Trump's 'incendiary statements' on Facebook

Ben Gilbert

Facebook has done nothing with a Trump post that threatens shooting Minneapolis protesters even as Twitter hides it for 'glorifying violence'

Ben Gilbert

YouTube has been auto-deleting comments about China's government-sponsored hacker army, but says it is 'an error in our enforcement systems'

Ben Gilbert

Facebook is spending $130 million to create a 'Supreme Court' that can overrule Mark Zuckerberg — here are its first 20 members

Ben Gilbert

Facebook was wrongly blocking news articles about the coronavirus pandemic for a full day — here's why it took so long to fix such a major issue

Ben Gilbert

TikTok accounts posing as politicians like Trump and Bernie Sanders keep cropping up, and it's another symptom of the app's ongoing struggle to police itself

Mary Meisenzahl

Facebook reveals new details about its plan to build a supreme court to oversee content moderation on its platform

Rob Price

YouTube reportedly lets its most popular creators get away with more

Ben Gilbert

Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg should try spending one day at Facebook's nightmarish content moderation center in Tampa, Florida

Dave Smith

YouTube's CEO was asked whether she actually meant her apology to the LGBTQ community, and the crowd broke out in applause

Rebecca Aydin

Facebook reportedly told a user it removed hateful anti-Muslim posts when it hadn’t

Isobel Asher Hamilton