moderation
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Microsoft’s Brad Smith Calls For ‘Industrywide’ Plan To Fight Extremist Content After Christchurch
Microsoft has called for the tech industry to set a uniform approach to violent, extremist content following the sickening massacre of Muslims attending mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand by a white supremacist earlier this month. At least 50 people were brutally murdered, scores of others were injured, and footage live-streamed on Facebook by the shooter…
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YouTube Finally Explicitly Bans Dangerous Pranks And Challenges After Bird Box Fiasco
YouTube has changed its policies in an attempt to cut down on potentially dangerous challenges and pranks, Engadget reported today, updating its rules to explicitly ban them from the site.
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YouTube: What If We Just Inserted A Link To Wikipedia Under Some Of The Conspiracy Videos
On Tuesday at tech festival SXSW, streaming site and Google subsidiary YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki proposed one solution to the conspiracy screeds and “false flag” hoax videos that are slowly but surely taking over the site by gaming its algorithms.
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Let’s Make Tech CEOs Moderate Their Own Hellish Websites
In what’s becoming a depressing genre, The Wall Street Journal published a story profiling the very human moderators who prevent the internet from becoming a completely murder-filled terror and abuse machine. Usually hired as contractors, these workers do the dirty work of reviewing flagged posts for internet giants, spending their days plugged into a non-stop…