Operationalizing content moderation" accuracy" in the Digital Services Act

JTZ Wei, F Zufall, R Jia - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.09601, 2023 - arxiv.org
The Digital Services Act, recently adopted by the EU, requires social media platforms to
report the" accuracy" of their automated content moderation systems. The colloquial term is …

Content Moderation on Social Media in the EU: Insights From the DSA Transparency Database

CP Drolsbach, N Pröllochs - Companion Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The Digital Services Act (DSA) represents a major legislative framework that mandates large
social media providers to file Statements of Reasons (SoRs) to the DSA Transparency …

Beyond Trial-and-Error: Predicting User Abandonment After a Moderation Intervention

B Tessa, L Cima, A Trujillo, M Avvenuti… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Current content moderation practices follow the\textit {trial-and-error} approach, meaning
that moderators apply sequences of interventions until they obtain the desired outcome …

Multilingual content moderation: A case study on Reddit

M Ye, K Sikka, K Atwell, S Hassan, A Divakaran… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Content moderation is the process of flagging content based on pre-defined platform rules.
There has been a growing need for AI moderators to safeguard users as well as protect the …

Reliable decision from multiple subtasks through threshold optimization: Content moderation in the wild

D Son, B Lew, K Choi, Y Baek, S Choi, B Shin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Social media platforms struggle to protect users from harmful content through content
moderation. These platforms have recently leveraged machine learning models to cope with …

TAR on social media: A framework for online content moderation

E Yang, DD Lewis, O Frieder - arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.12752, 2021 - arxiv.org
Content moderation (removing or limiting the distribution of posts based on their contents) is
one tool social networks use to fight problems such as harassment and disinformation …

Bandits for Online Calibration: An Application to Content Moderation on Social Media Platforms

V Avadhanula, OA Baki, H Bastani, O Bastani… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We describe the current content moderation strategy employed by Meta to remove policy-
violating content from its platforms. Meta relies on both handcrafted and learned risk models …

Algorithmic Arbitrariness in Content Moderation

JF Gomez, C Machado, LM Paes… - The 2024 ACM Conference …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Machine learning (ML) is widely used to moderate online content. Despite its scalability
relative to human moderation, the use of ML introduces unique challenges to content …

The DSA Transparency Database: Auditing self-reported moderation actions by social media

A Trujillo, T Fagni, S Cresci - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.10269, 2023 - arxiv.org
Since September 2023, the Digital Services Act (DSA) obliges large online platforms to
submit detailed data on each moderation action they take within the European Union (EU) to …

Transparency in content and source moderation

C Adithya Rajesh, D Chathanya Shyam… - Advances in Data …, 2023 - books.google.com
Millions of users are active on several social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and
Google. Due to this, there are bound to be polarizing views of people on certain topics …