Content Moderation

thoughts on online content moderation, free speech, and related topics.

Cancel culture creates a mega opportunity for a new social network -- Twitter 2.0 1. Pseudonymous (no verified profiles!) so you can't be cancelled and policies are applied fairly 2. Public follow graph + DMs (Twitter + Telegram) 3. Discovery engine to find insightful new voices

Avichal - Electric ϟ Capital twitter.com

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How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg theverge.com

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Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won’t fix the problem

technologyreview.com

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Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It

Thomas Hills scientificamerican.com

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Homebrew VC Hunter Walk Talks Twitter, TikTok, and Tech in the Time of Biden

Alex Kantrowitz onezero.medium.com

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Current social networks don't have great tools for dispute resolution. They're a combination of anarchy (people yelling) and tyranny (arbitrary deplatforming). An alternative approach is a global moderator hierarchy. In the event of dispute, the lowest common ancestor mediates.

Balaji

twitter.com

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Jack Dorsey on Twitter’s Mistakes (Published 2020)

nytimes.com

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Home - AI for content moderation · Checkstep

checkstep.com

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Moderation in Infrastructure

Stratechery stratechery.com

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