moderation system
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Discord Releases Automatic Content Moderation Tool to Support Its Overworked Mods
Discord is ramping up its content moderation tools and rolling out resources to support its overworked volunteer moderators. The company is also expanding its premium memberships program, which allows users to set up paid subscriptions for their servers.
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Moderator Who Watched Hours of Traumatic Videos Sues TikTok for Failing to Protect Her Mental Health
A former content moderator for TikTok is suing the social media giant and its parent company, ByteDance, for reportedly failing to take measures to protect her mental health after she watched countless hours of traumatic videos involving cannibalism, rapes, animal mutilation, and suicides, among numerous other disturbing activities.
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Speedrunners Protest, Leave Biggest Leaderboard Site As It Gets Flooded With Abusive Comments
Speedrun, a website where leaderboards crown the fastest players for any given game, recently added a commenting feature which hasn’t been going well for anyone. Since its implementation, users have been spammed with vulgar comments and inappropriate images. Worse, those plagued by this problem can’t moderate the garbage. As a result, some speedrunners and moderators…
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Facebook Will Clarify Its ‘Satire Exception’ for Moderating Content
Facebook announced that it would add information to its community standards about its so-called satire exception when moderating content. The change was made in response to a recent decision by its Oversight Board that required it to reinstate a comment with an adaption of the “two buttons” meme commenting on Turkey’s response to the Armenian…