For the first time ever, Facebook has published their internal guidelines for moderation. Facebook has been in thehot seat for the past year, and when CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the US Senate earlier this month many of the questions were regarding content removal policies. The release...
publication. Still, the document gives unique insight into the detailed principles for the company’s content removal—albeit not the enforcement procedure itself. One can only guess as to whether this surprising move away from secrecy can be attributed to the increasing media storm throughout 2017,...
All examinedcontent moderation decisionstook place on Facebookduring the same period, mostly between February and April 2021. Last, we conduct a case-by-case analysis to deduce if the content had indeed violated any platform policy to extrapolate what may have happened in this casestudy and what...
Content moderation has become one of the biggest challenges for social media companies. Firms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,Twitter, YouTube and Quora use a combination of software and thousands of humans to spot and remove videos, photos and other content that breaches their rules. That inclu...
Facebook on Tuesday disclosed that its ability to moderate content involving suicide, self-injury and child exploitation was impacted by the coronavirus between the months of April and June. Covid-19 limited the amount of content involving suicide, self-injury, and child nudity and sexual exploitat...
That will ultimately lead US officials to propose comprehensive legislation that regulates content moderation on social platforms, and we think they’ll follow the European Union’s lead on the issue.The EU has become the agenda-setter in terms of digital policy, as legislation like GDPR has beco...
That will ultimately lead US officials to propose comprehensive legislation that regulates content moderation on social platforms, and we think they’ll follow the European Union’s lead on the issue.The EU has become the agenda-setter in terms of digital policy, as legislation like GDPR has beco...
That will ultimately lead US officials to propose comprehensive legislation that regulates content moderation on social platforms, and we think they’ll follow the European Union’s lead on the issue.The EU has become the agenda-setter in terms of digital policy, as legislation like GDPR has beco...
This contrasted with the process at Facebook, where the decision was ultimately signed off by Mr Zuckerberg but prepared by a group including Monika Bickert, who leads the team that draws up Facebook’s content moderation policies, and Joel Kaplan, its Washington DC public policy head charged w...
By 2018, Facebook had abandoned its “Move fast and break things” mantra and accepted regulation was coming. There was an internal proposal for an independent board to review content-moderation decisions. Clegg made it happen and convinced former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt to jo...