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With increasing regulatory attention on digital technologies, it has become clear that the United States, the European Union, and China are all, concurrently and in parallel, developing rules and frameworks […]
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Would suppressing deepfakes violate freedom of expression norms? The question is pressing because the deepfake phenomenon in its more poisonous manifestations appears to call for a response, and automated targeting […]
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Content moderation has become an essential part of the business of social media platforms, yet how it works remains largely a mystery in some important cases, particularly with regard to […]
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Volunteer moderators play a key role when making judgements about which online content should be accepted and which should be removed. As such, their work fundamentally shapes the digital social […]
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Existing literature on the affordances of Internet platforms rarely examines the complex and recursive relationships between the actions of volunteer moderators and the behaviour of end users. Building on existing […]
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This article considers how the social-news and community site Reddit.com has become a hub for anti-feminist activism. Examining two recent cases of what are defined as “toxic technocultures” (#Gamergate and […]
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A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post online—and the large societal impact of these decisionsMost users want their Twitter feed, Facebook page, and […]
