moderation
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Facebook Adds Blackface to List of Prohibited Content It Might Get Around to Enforcing
A month after Facebook reached a breaking point with civil rights leaders over its failures to police its platform for racist and hateful content, the social media behemoth has announced some changes to hate speech policies. Going forward, Facebook will prohibit certain depictions of blackface and content suggesting that Jewish people run the world.
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Facebook Wants to be the Arbiter of Truth When It Comes to the Identities of Mega-Viral Accounts
For the past year or so, Facebook has mandated that certain page owners and political ad-spenders on the platform verify their identities as a way to curb interference in the coming election. Now, these checks are being extended to certain people’s profiles, too. According to a post made on the company’s blog yesterday afternoon, the…
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Leaked Documents Show TikTok Tried To Suppress ‘Ugly’ Users
Social video platform TikTok, already embroiled in a political skirmish over potential national security risks related to its Chinese owner, ByteDance, is now taking on a more familiar form of criticism: concerns over its highly opaque content moderation policies.
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Instagram AI Will Shame Users Before They Post Offensive Captions
In Instagram’s latest push to be one of the least toxic of the major social media services, the platform is launching a feature that warns users before they post something that could be offensive.