Content Moderation
thoughts on online content moderation, free speech, and related topics.
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Content Moderation
Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won’t fix the problem
technologyreview.com
Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #267
youtube.com
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.
Jack Dorsey on Twitter’s Mistakes (Published 2020)
nytimes.com
To account for the gaps in these solutions, many social computing systems use multiple tiers: Tier 1 is often algorithmic moderation for the most easy-to-catch problems. Tier 2 is human moderation, either paid (like Facebook) or community (like Reddit), depending on the platform.
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