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Push to repeal Section 230 raises stakes for how social media moderates content

Lawmakers are renewing a push to take away the legal provision that shields social media companies from liability over ...

New briefing paper outlines concerns around TikTok moderation policies political influence, and election integrity

A new briefing paper produced by the London Social Media Observatory (LSMO) at Royal Holloway and Westminster Foundation for ...

California's Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing Trump criticism

California Governor Gavin Newsom accused TikTok on Monday of suppressing content critical of President Donald Trump as he ...
R Street Institute

Regulating Algorithmic Content Distribution and Moderation by Online Platforms

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Frontiers

Longitudinal comparison of psychological outcomes of professional content moderators engaged in resilience training program

Wellness & Resiliency Division of Research, TaskUs Inc., New Braunfels, TX, United States Introduction: Content moderators safeguard the ever-growing online realm by reviewing and filtering out harms, ...
Frontiers

The influence of social media content on political identity with corruption perception as a moderator

1 Faculty of Human Ecology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 2 School of Marxism, Lyuliang University, Lüliang, Shanxi, China Political identity is key to maintaining social ...
Bloomberg L.P.

EU Ramps Up Content Moderation Probes Against Meta, TikTok

Meta Platforms Inc. and ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok have breached European Union rules designed to tackle illegal or harmful online content, according to early findings from the bloc. The EU’s executive ...
R Street Institute

Misinformation and Platform Moderation

Social media’s rapid rise over the last decade has incited grave concerns among policymakers and the public regarding its role in spreading misinformation. Content ...
Black Enterprise

New York Now Requires Social Media Apps To Report Content Moderation Policies

New York is mandating that major social media apps disclose the volume of their hate speech and misinformation. On Thursday, Oct. 2, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the start of a ...
The Verge

American Sweatshop depicts content moderation as the hell it is

Director Uta Briesewitz wants her new film to make you think about the human suffering that keeps the internet running. Director Uta Briesewitz wants her new film to make you think about the human ...
TechSpot

TikTok lays off hundreds of content moderators, replaces them with AI

What just happened? It's a sad case of another day, another company laying off hundreds of people as their jobs become automated by AI. This time, the firm in question is TikTok, which is replacing ...
Wall Street Journal

TikTok to Lay off Hundreds of U.K. Content Moderators in AI Push

TikTok plans to lay off hundreds of workers in the U.K., as the video platform turns to artificial intelligence to automate content moderation. Social-media companies built teams dedicated to policing ...