content moderation

In June, World Witness and Foxglove found that Meta continued to approve advertisements in Amharic concentrating on Ethiopian customers that included hate speech and requires violence. Fb has been implicated in spreading hate speech and…

Johnsen’s experience is common in the pro-choice activist community. Most of the people who spoke to WIRED say their content appeared to have been removed automatically by AI, rather than being reported by another user.Activists also…

Forced-birth extremists are not satisfied with shutting down abortion clinics. They also want to scrub accurate information about abortion access from the internet. In a post-Roe world, defending online speech about abortion—and the…

By its very nature, TikTok is harder to moderate than many other social media platforms, according to Cameron Hickey, project director at the Algorithmic Transparency Institute. The brevity of the videos, and the fact that many can…

Florida's law remains blocked, and the state is keenly interested in the outcome of the Texas battle. Florida on Wednesday filed a Supreme Court brief supporting Texas, and the Florida brief was cosigned by 11 other states: Alabama,…

What do Russian protesters have in common with Twitter users freaked out about Elon Musk reading their DMs and people worried about the criminalization of abortion? It would serve them all to be protected by a more robust set of design…

A federal appeals court has reinstated a Texas state law that bans “censorship” on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, allowing Texas to enforce the law while litigation continues.A US District Court judge had granted a…

“We have seen how important a role the platforms have in Ukraine. So if there is some kind of crisis, we need to have some tools because we don't have any legislation for that,” says Virkkunen. “There could be some other kind of a…

As he toyed with joining Twitter’s board or outright buying the company this week, Elon Musk tweeted a series of ideas for the platform, from a renewed commitment to “free speech” to an edit button for tweets. Waves of users weighed in,…