remixtures, to internet Portuguese
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#SocialMedia #ContentModeration #BigTech: "I like to think of the internet as a post-CompuServe online community.

CompuServe had some interesting differences from nearly any section of the internet today. For various reasons, people were charged by the hour, which meant they were charged by the minute to use it. So in the back of one’s mind was always a question of whether this extra minute was worth it.

So I think it tended to make people more conscious of how online they were, even if they found it compelling.

I don’t mean to portray this as a better world. I’m just saying it was a different one.

I’m very interested in ways to see how people can gather with a sense of shared ownership rather than a corporate patron overseeing the conversation."

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/11/17/Jonathan-Zittrain-15Q/

remixtures, to internet Portuguese
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#FactChecking #ContentModeration #SocialMedia #Journalism: "In this article, we chart the conflicting standards of fact-checking outside Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) countries that shifted their focus from holding politicians to account to acting as content moderators. We apply reflexive thematic analysis to a set of interviews with 37 fact-checking experts from 35 organizations in 27 countries to catalog the pressures they face and their struggle with tasks that are increasingly different from the journalistic values underpinning the practice. We find that fact-checkers have to balance the number of checks across each side of the partisan divide, an exercise in “bothsidesism” to manage the expectations of partisan social media users; that they increasingly prioritize the checking of viral content; and that Meta’s third-party fact-checking program prevents them from holding local politicians to account. We conclude with a discussion of our findings and recommendations for content moderation outside WEIRD countries."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448231213942

remixtures, to internet Portuguese
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#SocialMedia #Meta #Censorship #ContentModeration #Palestine #Gaza: "The members of the #StopSilencingPalestine campaign have reflected on the demands laid out in 2021, and are asking for urgent action from Meta, which includes:

  • A formal meeting with Meta executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as soon as possible and no later than the end of 2023, to discuss Meta’s censorship of Palestinian voices;
  • Ensuring that Meta’s newsworthiness allowance applies to news content related to the ongoing hostilities;
  • Immediately addressing the over-enforcement of its content moderation policies and eliminate bias in relation to Arabic-language content; and
  • Full transparency on both legal and voluntary requests made to Meta by the Israeli government, its Cyber Unit, and other governmental actors, and referral units."

https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/meta-stop-silencing-palestine/

remixtures, to Bulgaria Portuguese
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#EU #Ireland #DublinRiots #DSA #BigTech #ContentModeration #SocialMedia: "Under the DSA, tech firms also have to provide data to law enforcement authorities if requested, so they can track who is posting the content even if they’re anonymous (typically IP addresses are captured or metadata is available).

In some cases, police forces will ask tech platforms to leave potentially illegal content in place so they can establish a proper chain of evidence.

However, part of the three-and four-way discussions in the 24 hours following the riots looked at one particular issue: the lack of Irish-speaking content moderators working for X, TikTok and Google/YouTube." https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/1203/1419689-riots-eu/

researchbuzz, to ireland
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"Helen McEntee says X, formerly Twitter, did not cooperate with Gardaí in taking down 'vile messages' last Thursday. ... 'They [other companies] were taking down their vile messages. X were not. They did not engage. They did not fulfil their own customer standards,' she said."

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/dublin-riots-elon-musks-x-did-not-take-down-vile-messages-despite-garda-requests-justice-minister-helen-mcentee-says/a2015832225.html

remixtures, to internet Portuguese
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#SocialMedia #ContentModeration #HateSpeech: "New media studies invested in online political conflict, radical and antagonistic subcultures have taken an interest in the affordances that shape memes, vernaculars and online political communication. One often overlooked affordance is the ensemble of social, communication, platform and legal frameworks stipulating what users can and cannot say, which I call “speech affordances.” To explore this concept, I look at the strategic communication of 4chan, Twitter and YouTube subcultures tied to a historical meme, “Kekistan,” often perceived as a key example of the ideological cacophony of the 2015–2017 online “culture wars.” I focus on how 4chan's policy of user anonymity, YouTube's unmoderated comment sections and Twitter's more proactive moderation practices brought some influencers to alter the original connotations of the meme into “overt” messages tolerable to Twitter and YouTube out-groups and platform moderation policies. Speech affordances bear methodological implications for historical studies of speech moderation and the overall mechanisms in which problematic language adapts to spaces with distinct speech norms."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231206810

remixtures, to australia Portuguese
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#X : "X [formerly know as Twitter] has been kicked out of Australia’s voluntary misinformation and disinformation code, after failing to respond to a complaint about shutting down channels for users to report misinformation, during the voice to parliament referendum.

The industry association, the Digital Industry Group (Digi), announced on Monday that its disinformation and misinformation independent complaints subcommittee found X had “committed a serious breach of the code and has refused to cooperate with Digi”.

Platforms critic group Reset Australia had complained to Digi in early October about X removing a function that had been in place since 2021, allowing users to report tweets as misinformation or disinformation for investigation by X staff. Reset Australia argued that removing the function represented a breach of the misinformation code."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/27/x-twitter-removed-digi-misinformation-code-australia

remixtures, to internet Portuguese
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#SocialMedia #Instagram #TikTok #ContentModeration: "This study examines how de-platforming and flagging assemble to replicate offline inequalities, making content creators at the margins vulnerable to both online abuse and censorship on Instagram and TikTok. Highlighting gaps in online harms literature surrounding the misuse of this functionality, this paper frames misused or malicious flagging as online abuse through interviews with users who believed they were de-platformed this way, showcasing this practice’s emotional and financial impact on targets and creating a framework to identify it through users’ gossip."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565231218629

remixtures, to internet Portuguese
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#SocialMedia #Facebook #ContentModeration #HateSpeech: "A series of advertisements dehumanizing and calling for violence against Palestinians, intended to test Facebook’s content moderation standards, were all approved by the social network, according to materials shared with The Intercept.

The submitted ads, in both Hebrew and Arabic, included flagrant violations of policies for Facebook and its parent company Meta. Some contained violent content directly calling for the murder of Palestinian civilians, like ads demanding a “holocaust for the Palestinians” and to wipe out “Gazan women and children and the elderly.” Other posts, like those describing kids from Gaza as “future terrorists” and a reference to “Arab pigs,” contained dehumanizing language.

“The approval of these ads is just the latest in a series of Meta’s failures towards the Palestinian people,” Nadim Nashif, founder of the Palestinian social media research and advocacy group 7amleh, which submitted the test ads, told The Intercept. “Throughout this crisis, we have seen a continued pattern of Meta’s clear bias and discrimination against Palestinians.”"
https://theintercept.com/2023/11/21/facebook-ad-israel-palestine-violence/

remixtures, to ai Portuguese
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#AI #GemerativeAI #LLMs #ContentModeration: "The AI development community is increasingly making use of hosting intermediaries such as Hugging Face that provide easy access to user-uploaded models and training data. These model marketplaces lower technical deployment barriers for hundreds of thousands of users, yet can be used in numerous potentially harmful and illegal ways. In this article, we argue that AI models, which can both `contain' content and be open-ended tools, present one of the trickiest platform governance challenges seen to date. We provide case studies of several incidents across three illustrative platforms --- Hugging Face, GitHub and Civitai --- to examine how model marketplaces moderate models. Building on this analysis, we outline important (and yet nevertheless limited) practices that industry has been developing to respond to moderation demands: licensing, access and use restrictions, automated content moderation, and open policy development. While the policy challenge at hand is a considerable one, we conclude with some ideas as to how platforms could better mobilize resources to act as a careful, fair, and proportionate regulatory access point."

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6dfk3

remixtures, to internet Portuguese
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#SocialMedia #TikTok #ContentModeration #Censorship: "TikTok has deleted a video 404 Media posted Wednesday that was about The Guardian deleting a copy of Osama Bin Laden’s “Letter to America.”

The letterwent moderately viral on the platform and has caused a wider mess for the company on Twitter and elsewhere. TikTok stated that 404 Media’s video was “Removed for: ‘Violent Extremism.’”

Here is the video that TikTok deleted, which is still up on Instagram Reels, and which had about 120,000 views on TikTok last I checked, about an hour ago:"

https://www.404media.co/tiktok-deletes-404-media-video-about-guardian-deleting-osama-bin-ladens-letter-to-america/

remixtures, to internet Portuguese
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#SocialMedia #BigTech #SiliconValley #USA #ContentModeration #Censorship: "It should be no surprise that federal politicians favor Big Tech. Silicon Valley is where the money is. Just as important, voters have not penalized politicians for failing in their duty to protect the public interest. There has been no outcry about politicians whose family members work in Big Tech and staff members whose salaries are paid by owners of Big Tech. Politicians at the state level have passed some tech reform legislation, with California leading the way, but industry lobbying has taken the teeth out of most of the laws.

In court, internet platforms have avoided unfavorable judgments by asserting rights to free speech, as well as the protection of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. While there have historically been limits on 1st Amendment protection for harmful speech, courts have not applied any limit to the speech of internet platforms. Section 230, which was created to enable internet platforms to moderate harmful speech online, has been interpreted by courts as blanket immunity, even in cases of negligence.

Internet platforms should not be allowed to harm children (and adults) with impunity. They should not be allowed to undermine democracy and public health for profit. These notions seem obvious to everyone but those in a position to rectify the situation." https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-11-12/big-tech-children-addiction-states-lawsuits

remixtures, to instagramreality Portuguese
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#SocialMedia #Palestine #Gaza #ContentModeration #Censorship: "Palestinians have long fought private censorship, so what we are seeing now is not particularly new. But it is growing at a time when online speech protections are sorely needed. We call on companies to clarify their rules, including any specific changes that have been made in relation to the ongoing war, and to stop the knee jerk reaction to treat posts expressing support for Palestinians—or notifying users of peaceful demonstrations, or documenting violence and the loss of loved ones—as incitement and to follow their own existing standards to ensure that moderation remains fair and unbiased.

Platforms should also follow the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation notify users when, how, and why their content has been actioned, and give them the opportunity to appeal. We know Israel has worked directly with Facebook, requesting and garnering removal of content it deemed incitement to violence, suppressing posts by Palestinians about human rights abuses during May 2021 demonstrations that turned violent."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/platforms-must-stop-unjustified-takedowns-posts-and-about-palestinians

remixtures, to Bulgaria Portuguese
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#EU #France #Terrorism #SocialMedia #Censorship #ContentModeration #DigitalRights: "On 8 November 2023, a coalition of six organisations – La Quadrature du Net (LQDN), Access Now, ARTICLE 19, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL), European Digital Rights (EDRi) and Wikimedia France – filed a complaint before the French supreme administrative court, the Conseil d’État, against the French decree implementing the Regulation on addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online (also known as “TERREG”).

They are asking the Conseil d’État to request a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the validity of the TERREG in light of fundamental rights protected by EU law."

https://edri.org/our-work/a-coalition-of-6-organisations-takes-eus-dangerous-terrorist-content-regulation-to-court/

rwg, to bluesky
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As I mentioned before, I'm digging into , trying to figure it all out.

Today, I'm studying its approach to .

If anyone has insights about this -- especially if you know how many actual content moderators they have -- feel free to reach out.

remixtures, to startups Portuguese
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: "Still, the cost of these cuts is arguably already evident in the way major platforms have scrambled to respond to the war between Israel and Hamas. And the shift away from in-house trust and safety teams has created an opening for consultancies and startups to offer something new: trust and safety as a service.

These companies, many of them founded and staffed by people with Big Tech pedigrees, let platforms “buy rather than build” trust and safety services, says Talha Baig, a former Meta engineer whose startup, Sero AI, recently received backing from accelerator Y Combinator. “There is a lot more labor out on the marketplace, and there’s also a lot more customers willing to buy that labor.”

But experts warn that outsourcing trust and safety also means outsourcing responsibilities to teams with no power to change the way platforms actually work."

https://www.wired.com/story/trust-and-safety-startups-big-tech/

stefano, (edited ) to mastodon
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Last night, after a tip-off, I decided to start checking out the instances federated with BSD Cafe. I came across some truly appalling instances, featuring horrible images and content that could end up on our timeline. As a result, I've begun integrating some blocklists into BSD Cafe, taking a gradual approach to avoid going overboard with the blocks.

This has led to the immediate removal of over 10 followers from my profile—potentially good folks, but from highly questionable instances. I can't stand by as BSD Cafe gets tainted with such materials.

Friends of the Fediverse, choose your instances wisely. It will ensure a far better experience for everyone.

#FediTips #Mastodon #Fediverse #OnlineSafety #CommunityStandards #ContentModeration #Blocklist #ChooseWisely #BSDCafe #BSDCafeUpdates

remixtures, to instagramreality Portuguese
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#SocialMedia #Israel #Meta #Instagram #Facebook #Palestine #Censorship #ContentModeration: "AS ISRAEL IMPOSED an internet blackout in Gaza on Friday, social media users posting about the grim conditions have contended with erratic and often unexplained censorship of content related to Palestine on Instagram and Facebook.

Since Israel launched retaliatory airstrikes in Gaza after the October 7 Hamas attack, Facebook and Instagram users have reported widespread deletions of their content, translations inserting the word “terrorist” into Palestinian Instagram profiles, and suppressed hashtags. Instagram comments containing the Palestinian flag emoji have also been hidden, according to 7amleh, a Palestinian digital rights group that formally collaborates with Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, on regional speech issues.

Numerous users have reported to 7amleh that their comments were moved to the bottom of the comments section and require a click to display. Many of the remarks have something in common: “It often seemed to coincide with having a Palestinian flag in the comment,” 7amleh’s U.S. national organizer Eric Sype told The Intercept."

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/28/instagram-palestinian-flag-emoji/?utm_campaign=theintercept&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

remixtures, to internet Portuguese
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#SocialMedia #HateSpeech #ContentModeration #Racism #Israel #Palestine #Gaza: "Social media companies must urgently address the fanning of online hate and racism against Palestinian and Jewish communities, Amnesty International said today, as the conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories escalates further.

The organization has found an alarming rise in advocacy of hatred that constitutes incitement to violence, hostility, and discrimination on social media platforms, which is prohibited under international human rights law, and other harmful content against Palestinian and Jewish people. Amnesty International also documented concerning reports that content posted by Palestinians and advocates of Palestinian rights are being subject to potentially discriminatory content moderation by different social media platforms."

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/global-social-media-companies-must-step-up-crisis-response-on-israel-palestine-as-online-hate-and-censorship-proliferate/

itnewsbot, to Israel

Creators confused by Elon Musk’s plan to “incentivize truth” on X - Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto)

After rese... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1979687 -hamaswar #x

remixtures, to uk Portuguese
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: "The UK has now endured 10 long years of debate and deliberation on the topic of internet regulation. For proponents of new online “safety” laws, this has been as painful as it has for those deeply concerned about the potential impact on civil liberties. What began with a speech by David Cameron in 2013 on cleansing the internet of “disgusting material” online, led to an “Internet Safety Strategy green paper” in 2017, which developed into an “Online Harms White Paper” in 2019, a draft Online Safety Bill in 2021 and then a full and final Online Safety Bill in 2022. The Bill, soon to be an Act of Parliament, has only just completed its passage through both the House of Commons and House of Lords after being carried through multiple Parliamentary sessions and at least one major revision.

A debate which began focused squarely on the protection of children online morphed into something much broader, culminating in a piece of legislation that would ultimately regulate the speech of everyone online. The final product is a regulatory framework, overseen by broadcast regulator Ofcom, which will increase liability on online platforms, shifting culpability to these platforms for the online expression of individuals, rather than the users themselves (...)

This blog signposts the key areas of the Bill that threaten our rights and liberties. Despite the best efforts of campaigners across a multitude of groups, who were able to scale back the ill-informed concept of “harmful” speech to adults, the civil liberties red flags are many and must be monitored closely when the regulatory framework formally kicks in the coming months."

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2023/10/five-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-online-safety-bill/

itnewsbot, to generativeAI

Will ChatGPT’s hallucinations be allowed to ruin your life? - Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson)

Bribery. Embezzlement. Terrori... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1970029

itnewsbot, to humanrights

Instagram sorry for translation error that put “terrorist” in Palestinian bios - Enlarge / Palestine's flag. (credit: Wong Yu Liang | Moment)

M... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1977636

remixtures, to Bulgaria Portuguese
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: "We, the undersigned organisations, are writing to you in response to four letters you have recently addressed to Meta, X, TikTok, and most recently, YouTube, in relation to the spread of disinformation and illegal content on their respective platforms and in the context of armed conflicts, killings, and other forms of violence in the Gaza Strip and in Israel.

We understand the sense of urgency and timeliness of your action, seeking to ensure that no online content that is illegal under EU or member state laws continues to spread on Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) in the EU. It is especially so in times of armed conflicts that the protection of civilians has to be prioritised and protected equally in strict compliance with international humanitarian and human rights law.

We also welcome the European Commission’s diligent efforts to ensure that X fully complies with the DSA. Requesting information about the alleged spreading of illegal content and disinformation on the platforms definitely falls under the mandate of the DSA enforcement team. While we are alarmed by the potential non-compliance of Meta and, in particular, X with the DSA, we are concerned about the interpretation of the law put forward in these letters."
https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/precise-interpretation-of-dsa-matters-in-gaza-and-israel/

remixtures, to internet Portuguese
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: "We, a collective of human rights and civil society organizations, urge tech companies to immediately take strict measures to protect their users from harm in light of the escalating events in the region. These events have inevitably led to increased discrimination against Palestinian content and a rise in anti-Palestinian racism across various online platforms, and demonstrate the critical link between the digital realm and the reality on the ground.

Between October 7th and 11th, 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media documented 19,000 violent tweets out of 23,000 Hebrew tweets on the ‘X’ platform. This violent content included, but was not limited to, incitement, hate speech, and racism against Palestinians. On the other hand, different social media platforms are flooded with disinformation and misinformation, contributing to the labeling, dehumanization and stereotyping of Palestinians. Moreover, some Israeli official pages are praising violence and justifying attacks against civilians.

Therefore, we stand united today in calling on tech companies to urgently address instances of online hate speech, incitement and violent discourse targeting Palestinians, mainly in Hebrew. Incitement to violence against Palestinians and calls for collective punishment are spreading rampantly across online platforms, especially on X and Telegram. Human rights abuses and calls for attacks are oftentimes encouraged by high-ranking Israeli officials. This incitement transcends the virtual realm and has fatal consequences."

https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/tech-companies-palestine/

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