As government pressure on major technology companies builds, both firms and legislators
are searching for technical solutions to difficult platform governance puzzles such as hate …

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 …

Technologies of “artificial intelligence”(AI) and machine learning (ML) are increasingly
presented as solutions to key problems of our societies. Companies are developing …

Contemporary policy debates about managing the enormous volume of online content have
taken a renewed focus on upload filtering, automated detection of potentially illegal content …

In this paper, I approach platform governance through algorithmic folklore, consisting of
beliefs and narratives about moderation systems that are passed on informally and can exist …

Public debate about content moderation has overwhelmingly focused on removal: social
media platforms deleting content and suspending users, or opting not to do so. However …

In popular discussions, the nuances of AI are often abridged as “the algorithm”, as the
specific arrangements of machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL) and automated …

The proliferation of harmful content on online platforms is a major societal problem, which
comes in many different forms, including hate speech, offensive language, bullying and …

Platform companies are increasingly being called upon to make ethical decisions regarding
speech, and in response, the public is becoming more interested in how content moderation …

Social media platforms have been establishing content moderation guidelines and
employing various moderation policies to counter hate speech and misinformation. The goal …