The Observer10d
Facebook and content moderation: Why it’s always under attack
In the complex task of curbing misinformation, hate speech, and harmful content, Facebook often faces backlash from users, ...
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Facebook inflicted ‘lifelong trauma’ on Kenyan content moderators, campaigners say, as more than 140 are diagnosed with PTSD
Campaigners have accused Facebook parent Meta of inflicting “potentially lifelong trauma” on hundreds of content moderators in Kenya, after more than 140 were diagnosed with PTSD and other ...
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Facebook’s group moderators are its last, best hope
To be fair to Facebook, it gives moderators wide latitude to run their ... bios and profile pictures and [can] generate and share content powered by AI on the platform,” according to one executive.
Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers
Meta is abandoning the use of independent fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram, replacing them with X-style "community notes" where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users.
New York Magazine1mon
What Mark Zuckerberg Gets Right About Fact-Checking and Content Moderation
His announcement that Facebook would be loosening its content-moderation policies and shutting down its DEI programs can be viewed, in every sense, as a capitulation to Donald Trump, the once and ...
Meta drops fact-checking, loosens its content moderation rules
Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul of its content moderation policies, taking off some guardrails ...
Business Insider2y
Meta is changing who handles content moderation in East Africa. It isn't changing the dismal state of how social media stays sanitized.
It's a sign of how troubled the content moderation industry remains. Despite several such lawsuits against social media companies like Facebook, Youtube, TikTok, and Reddit from around the world ...
New Scientist1mon
Meta allowed pornographic ads that break its content moderation rules
Meta allowed thousands of paid ads containing sexually explicit imagery on social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram ...
Meta to move key content policy team to Texas amid fact-checking changes
Meta — whose platforms boast over 3 billion users worldwide — did not offer specifics on where in the state it plans to move ...
Palo Alto Weekly2y
Terminated Meta content moderators worry about fake news flourishing in their absence
including content moderators, The Verge reported. John said that this caused a rise in racist comments and hate speech. He said he expects similar effects at Facebook and Meta in six to eight months.