Content Moderation

Twitter bans several prominent journalists who covered Elon Musk's Twitter shenanigans

Twitter also banned the account of Mastodon, the social media alternative that’s built momentum since Elon Musk took over. Musk tweeted saying that all these accounts violated a key policy, which was only 24 hours old.

After Instagram, TikTok found of boosting potentially harmful posts targeted at young teens

A recent study found that TikTok for Chinese users is designed to promote content about math and science to young users, and limits how long 13 and 14-year-olds can be on the site each day. In other countries, the focus is on virality.

Leaked documents reveal Meta knew Instagram was pushing girls towards content that harmed mental health

Be it Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook, content moderation is guided by profits, and as Twitter files showed, by ideology more than policy. Instagram, in particular, has been often been accused of being influenced by profits while moderating content.

Twitter is leaning too much on machine-based content moderation. Here’s why this is problematic

Twitter is relying heavily on machine-based content moderation and “trusted” users for its content moderation. Elon Musk needs to realise that content moderation on any social media platform needs humans to function properly.

As Twitter owner Elon Musk learns, content moderation is a messy job

A self-described free speech absolutist, Musk has said he wants to make Twitter a global digital town square. But he also said he wouldn't make major decisions about content or about restoring banned accounts before setting up a 'content moderation council' with diverse viewpoints

French President Emmanuel Macron caps US visit with New Orleans trip, holds unannounced meeting with Elon Musk

Macron said that he and Musk had a 'clear and honest' discussion during an hour-long meeting, and that he conveyed to Musk his and Europe's concerns about content moderation on Twitter

EU threatens Elon Musk-led Twitter with a ban for their new ‘content moderation’ policy

While it is true that Elon Musk and his team has not changed Twitter's content moderation policy one bit, they have done some questionable things about content moderation. Moreover, mass layoffs and resignations have impacted Twitter’s ability to block harmful content.

Elon Musk firing thousands of outsourced content moderators shows his blasé attitude towards harmful content.

Elon Musk continued downsizing Twitter after he terminated thousands of outsourced content moderators from Twitter, who were responsible in removing content that would be harmful to users on the platform.

Twitter’s gutted content moderation teams are facing major challenges in moderating misinformation

People who are still working with Twitter said that along with half of their colleagues, they have lost access to most resources that helped them moderate misinformation, right before the mid-term elections in the US.

'Twitter's strong commitment to content moderation remains absolutely unchanged', says Elon Musk amid massive layoffs

Musk also added that Twitter saw hateful speech decline below prior norms this week, contrary to what the press reported