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Mastodon Has a Child Abuse Material Problem, Like Every Other Major Web Platform

July 24, 2023

Lucas Ropek

A new report suggests that the lax content moderation policies of Mastodon and other decentralized social media platforms have led to a proliferation of child sexual abuse material. Stanford’s Internet Observatory published new research Monday that sho…
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Meta Told to Hand Over Threads Content Moderation Documents to Congress

July 17, 2023

Nikki Main

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has issued an additional subpoena directing Meta to hand over documents surrounding content moderation on its newest app, Threads. The request was sent amid the ongoing investigation into policies on tech platforms in…
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Oversight Board Tells Facebook to Remove Video of Cambodian Prime Minister Threatening Opponents

June 29, 2023

Mack DeGeurin

The Meta Oversight Board, the Supreme Court-like content moderation authority for Facebook and Instagram, announced Thursday it had overruled a decision by the company. Facebook had allowed a video to remain viewable in which authoritarian Cambodian Pr…
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Apps, Content Moderation, reddit, Reddit API changes, Social, steve huffman, Tech Industry

Reddit is battling against moderators marking their communities NSFW

June 22, 2023

Ivan Mehta

After adopting different forms of protest like exclusively posting John Oliver pictures or changing the topic of the subreddit, moderators have rebelled against the company by marking their subreddits NSFW (Not Safe For Work). Protesting API changes made by Reddit, moderators are making their subreddits NSFW and loosening the rules about what users can post.…
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Twitch will require new labels for streams with sexual themes, gambling and M-rated games

June 20, 2023

Taylor Hatmaker

Twitch is rethinking the way it flags mature content, swapping its existing toggle for a more granular set of topic-specific labels. The company announced Tuesday that it would introduce a new set of content labels that require streamers to signal when their channels will contain sexual themes, graphic violence, “drugs, intoxication, or excessive tobacco use,”…
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Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps

June 16, 2023

Ivan Mehta

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is not backing down amid protests against API changes made by the platform. In interviews with The Verge, NBCNews, and NPR, Huffman defended business decisions made by the company to charge third-party apps saying API wasn’t designed to support these clients. The Reddit co-founder also talked about protesting moderators, changing site…
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Meta to appeal court ruling declaring content moderators as its employees

June 9, 2023

Annie Njanja

Meta is set to appeal Kenya’s court decision declaring it as the primary employer of the moderators that review content on its platforms in sub-Saharan Africa. Meta has filed a notice of appeal against the ruling made last week on orders issued in March. This comes after 184 moderators sued it, and its content review…
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AI-generated hate is rising: 3 things leaders should consider before adopting this new tech

June 2, 2023

Walter Thompson

For all of its power and potential, generative AI makes it easy, fast and accessible for bad actors to produce harmful content. AI-generated hate is rising: 3 things leaders should consider before adopting this new tech by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch
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Twitter fails to remove, label graphic images after Texas mass shooting

May 8, 2023

Ashley Belanger

Feds found that Texas shooter shared “neo-Nazi views” on social media.
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Mastodon fixes “confusing” sign-up process to attract users fleeing Twitter

May 2, 2023

Ashley Belanger

Mastodon forms a plan to make decentralized social networks go mainstream.
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