Moderating content on today’s internet is akin to a round of Whack-A-Mole with human moderators continually forced to react in realtime to changing trends, such as vaccine mis- and disinformation or ...

As a platform for selling games, Steam has garnered some deserved praise for its lax approach to moderation, allowing ...

A lighting flare, fired by Israel forces in the sky, is viewed in the northwest of Gaza on October 31, 2023. A lighting flare, fired by Israel forces in the sky, is viewed in the northwest of Gaza on ...

Periodically, the worlds of advertising and partisan politics collide. An impassioned and often politicized debate has taken center stage around the value of walled garden content moderation. There ...

Earlier this year, Palestinian-American filmmaker Khitam Jabr posted a handful of Reels about her family’s trip to the West Bank. In the short travel vlogs, Jabr shared snippets of Palestinian culture ...

Anonymity and amplification have transformed hateful whispers into viral shouts. Social media platforms claim that their algorithms can filter out harmful speech, yet studies reveal that their ...

True, Aristotle’s extolling of moderation has survived the millennia. But that "Golden Mean" seems to be outweighed today by a preference for extremism—yes, political but also otherwise. As a small ...

In 2015, a man wearing a skull mask posted a video outlining his plans to murder Brianna Wu. The skull video was only one of many such disturbing and bizarre posts targeting Wu and other women online ...

Chris Berg receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Elizabeth Morton and Marta Poblet do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...

Since the dawn of the internet, knowing (or, perhaps more accurately, not knowing) who is on the other side of the screen has been one of the biggest mysteries and thrills. In the early days of social ...