Like trainer, like bot? Inheritance of bias in algorithmic content moderation

R Binns, M Veale, M Van Kleek, N Shadbolt - Social Informatics: 9th …, 2017 - Springer
The internet has become a central medium through which 'networked publics' express their
opinions and engage in debate. Offensive comments and personal attacks can inhibit …

Reconsidering tweets: Intervening during tweet creation decreases offensive content

M Katsaros, K Yang, L Fratamico - … AAAI Conference on Web and Social …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
The proliferation of harmful and offensive content is a problem that many online platforms
face today. One of the most common approaches for moderating offensive content online is …

The fabrics of machine moderation: Studying the technical, normative, and organizational structure of Perspective API

B Rieder, Y Skop - Big Data & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Over recent years, the stakes and complexity of online content moderation have been
steadily raised, swelling from concerns about personal conflict in smaller communities to …

Deeper attention to abusive user content moderation

J Pavlopoulos, P Malakasiotis… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - aclanthology.org
Experimenting with a new dataset of 1.6 M user comments from a news portal and an
existing dataset of 115K Wikipedia talk page comments, we show that an RNN operating on …

Does transparency in moderation really matter? User behavior after content removal explanations on reddit

S Jhaver, A Bruckman, E Gilbert - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
When posts are removed on a social media platform, users may or may not receive an
explanation. What kinds of explanations are provided? Do those explanations matter? Using …

The discourse of online content moderation: Investigating polarized user responses to changes in reddit's quarantine policy

Q Shen, C Rose - Proceedings of the third workshop on abusive …, 2019 - aclanthology.org
Recent concerns over abusive behavior on their platforms have pressured social media
companies to strengthen their content moderation policies. However, user opinions on these …

Crossmod: A cross-community learning-based system to assist reddit moderators

E Chandrasekharan, C Gandhi, MW Mustelier… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we introduce a novel sociotechnical moderation system for Reddit called
Crossmod. Through formative interviews with 11 active moderators from 10 different …

[PDF][PDF] When AI moderates online content: effects of human collaboration and interactive transparency on user trust

MD Molina, SS Sundar - Journal of Computer-Mediated …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Given the scale of user-generated content online, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to flag
problematic posts is inevitable, but users do not trust such automated moderation of content …

Offensive language detection explained

J Risch, R Ruff, R Krestel - … of the second workshop on trolling …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
Many online discussion platforms use a content moderation process, where human
moderators check user comments for offensive language and other rule violations. It is the …

Common sense or censorship: How algorithmic moderators and message type influence perceptions of online content deletion

J Gonçalves, I Weber, GM Masullo… - new media & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Hateful content online is a concern for social media platforms, policymakers, and the public.
This has led high-profile content platforms, such as Facebook, to adopt algorithmic content …