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Young users on the wildly popular video app have created an ad hoc system of screenshot leaks and callout videos meant to out abusers and predators.
The Coral Project is an open source project to help publishers of all sizes build better communities around their journalism. We’re creating tools that help everyone to feel safe, respected, and heard.
For years, tech companies have relied on a rhetorical sleight of hand. It’s not working anymore.
Posting clear rules made newcomer comments 8 percentage points more likely to follow the rules. Newcomer participation increased by 70% on average in a field experiment of 2,190 discussions in a 13m subscriber science community
Black Facebook users complain they can't talk about racism without being censored for hate speech. Civil rights groups want Facebook to fix it.
Proposals to change recommendations and curb conspiracies were sacrificed for engagement, staff say.
"Stark reality" illustrated by 71-image gallery of vile, moderated comments.
Real Life is a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis is more on living. We publish one piece a day—essays, features, uncategorizable—four or five days a week. We launched with funding from Snapchat, but we operate with editorial independence and without ads.
The company said this week that YouTubers could lose monetization for not just the content of their videos, but what's posted in their comment sections as well.
A reporter for the British broadcaster Channel 4 went undercover as a Facebook moderator at CPL Resources. The person found that Facebook was failing to delete shocking images of graphic violence, child abuse, and racism, including a little boy being beaten by an adult man.
Social media is great for connecting people, sharing news and information, and giving your grandmother the opportunity to air her political opinions unfettered. Unfortunately, its anonymity and widespread reach makes it an easy way for people to spread hate, and since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, social media…
Users have been sharing their innocuous posts that have been deemed #TooSexyForTumblr.
(2020). Don’t read the comments: the effects of abusive comments on perceptions of women authors’ credibility. Information, Communication & Society: Vol. 23, No. 7, pp. 947-962.
What's it like to be someone who watches banned content on social media so you don't have to?
The social network is also soliciting public feedback for the first time in updating its rules.
This is why I believe federated social networks are never going to work out long term. Someone who starts an instance doesn't know they're signing up for thousands of hours a year wading through the cloaca of the internet. That shit is *terrible* for you. https://t.co/dYE1Pwq8gC— rahaeli (@rahaeli) September 2, 2018
Moderating billions of posts a week in more than a hundred languages has become Facebook’s biggest challenge. Leaked documents and nearly two dozen interviews show how the company hopes to solve it.