#Reddit #AI #ContentModeration #datasets

'Researchers at Cornell Tech have released a dataset extracted from more than 300,000 public Reddit communities, and a report detailing how Reddit communities are changing their policies to address a surge in AI-generated content. '

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/04/dataset-reveals-how-reddit-communities-are-adapting-ai

Meta ends fact-checking program in favor of community notes: Meta shifts content moderation strategy to prioritize free expression and reduce enforcement errors. https://ppc.land/meta-ends-fact-checking-program-in-favor-of-community-notes/ #Meta #FactChecking #ContentModeration #CommunityNotes #FreeExpression

"Protecting #democracy from threats created by Internet #platforms is a laudable goal. But it is not worth the cost imposed by legislative attempts so far: empowering the government to control legal speech online. Lawmakers’ attempts to impose their own top-down speech rules are particularly unwarranted given the far more promising possibilities offered by #usercontrolled and #decentralized #contentmoderation systems."

https://techpolicy.press/regulated-democracy-and-regulated-speech

I'm speaking today (in French) about @opentermsarchive at @SuVergnolle’s inaugural “Lunch & Learn” monthly seminar on #ContentModeration.
Join at 12:30 CET directly on https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/92869618946?pwd=1BiQHTjkH6PpYANDZos5KGD6Q3w5DB.1&ref=regulation-tech.cnam.fr
and register on https://www.linkedin.com/events/lunch-learnopentermsarchive-cha7310707496845803521/comments/ to receive a link to the replay!

Online #ContentModeration: What works, and what people want | MIT Sloan https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/online-content-moderation-what-works-and-what-people-want ““Contrary to recent claims from many political elites, the main problem with professional #factchecking is not bias or overreach,” he added. “The problem is that professional fact checkers can’t keep up with the vast scale of content posted every day” #misinformation

https://www.europesays.com/1957830/ When AI Fuels Atrocities — And How It Can Help Prevent Them #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligenceAI #Atrocities/massAtrocities #AtrocityPrevention/atrocitiesPrevention #content #ContentModeration #Cyber #DeepFakes #DISINFORMATION #EmergingTechnology #GenerativeAI #mali #propaganda #SocialMediaPlatforms #TechAndAtrocityPreventionSymposium #technology

https://www.europesays.com/1938099/ Romanian media watchdog defies Musk over censorship claims – POLITICO #CalinGeorgescu #ContentModeration #DigitalServicesAct #DISINFORMATION #elections #ElonMusk #IllegalContent #intelligence #LawEnforcement #media #Platforms #regulation #romania #Russia #SocialMedia #stiri #telecoms #UnitedStates

»#DemocraticSenators Team Up With #MAGA To Hand #Trump A #CensorshipMachine: #Section230 — the law that both enables #contentmoderation and protects websites from being sued for #userspeech.« https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/democratic-senators-team-up-with-maga-to-hand-trump-a-censorship-machine/?eicker.news #tech #media

Underprivileged people are apparently especially easy to target on #ActivityPub , or so I have been told, and I believe it. They have been complaining about it to the Mastodon developers over the years, but the Mastodon developers at best don’t give a shit, at worst are hostile to the idea, and have been mostly ignoring these criticisms. Well, now we have “Nicole,” the infamous “Fediverse Chick”, a spambot that seems to be registering hundreds of accounts across several #Mastodon instances, and then once registered, sends everyone a direct message introducing itself.

You can’t block it by domain or by name since the name keeps changing and spans multiple instances. It is the responsibility of each domain to prevent registrations of bots like this.

But what happens when the bot designer ups the ante? What happens when they try this approach but with a different name each time? Who is to say that isn’t already happening and we don’t notice it? This seems to be an attempt to show everyone a huge weakness in the content moderation toolkit, and we are way overdue to address these weaknesses.

#DemocraticPoliticians Should Leave #ElonMusk’s #XTwitter.

Undermining Democratic Discourse Since #Musk’s takeover, #Twitter has become a platform for #misinformation, #hatespeech, and #algorithmicbias, threatening democratic values.

Amplification of Extremism By removing #contentmoderation safeguards, #X allows #farright voices and #conspiracymyths to spread unchecked, distorting public debate. (1/3)

Professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, Tamar Mitts for @time breaks down why the fight against online extremism always fails and why we need to understand that the issue "is bigger than any one site can handle."

https://flip.it/qS0RGQ

"Mark Zuckerberg might be done with factchecking, but he cannot escape the truth. The third richest man in the world announced that Meta will replace its independent factchecking with community notes. I went to the AI Action Summit in Paris this week to tell tech execs and policymakers why this is wrong.

Instead of scaling back programmes that make social media and artificial intelligence more trustworthy, companies need to invest in and respect the people who filter social media and who label the data that AI relies on. I know because I used to be one of them.

A mum of two young children, I was recruited from my native South Africa with the promise to join the growing tech sector in Kenya for a Facebook subcontractor, Sama, as a content moderator. For two years, I spent up to 10 hours a day staring at child abuse, human mutilation, racist attacks and the darkest parts of the internet so you did not have to.

It was not just the type of content I had to watch that gave me insomnia, anxiety and migraines, it was the quantity too. In Sama we had something called AHT, or action handling time. This was the amount of time we were given to analyse and rate a piece of content. We were being timed, and the company measured our success in seconds. We were constantly under pressure to get it right.

You could not stop if you saw something traumatic. You could not stop for your mental health. You could not stop to go the bathroom. You just could not stop. We were told the client, in our case Facebook, required us to keep going."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/12/moderator-facebook-real-cost-outsourcing-digital-labour