Fediverse Trust & Safety

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U.S. Senator Michael Bennet on Tuesday sought information on how tech giants Meta , X, TikTok and Google were trying to stop the spread of false and misleading content about the Israel-Hamas conflict on their platforms.

‘Trust & Safety Tycoon’ challenges players to safeguard social media.

We are told that technology is on the brink of ruining everything. But we are being lied to, and the truth is so much better. Marc Andreessen presents his techno-optimist vision for the future.

Based on the Court's decisions, companies could be exposed to more content moderation lawsuits.

What would platform governance look like if users affected by it could get a seat at the table to design the policies that will govern their social media experience? We talked with Innovation Fellow Carolina Are.

Senator Marsha Blackburn has said the Kids Online Safety Act will 'protect minor children from the transgender in our culture'.

#BanTheADL: Twitter Users Call Out Anti-Defamation League, Elon Musk Supports Attacks - Clayton County Register

The moderation tool has disappointed experts and irritated politicians over corrections judged abusive. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, overhauled a controversial censorship policy for “Dangerous Organizations” — but is it enough?

This survey will gauge the level of effort spent on moderation; the awareness of legal and regulatory concerns; and the desire for additional resources.

The ethics of content moderation are an important consideration for companies that rightly value the employee experience of their agents.

Written in Python. Originally started to flag toxic content for Mod followup, but it’s growing to do other things too. Still very much a work in progress. Currently in use in !asklemmy...

⚡ Introducing masto2pixel, a blocklist converter https://dansup.github.io/masto2pixel Easily convert blocklists between Mastodon & Pixelfed format, and share blocklists in url format! ✨ Open source (https://github.com/dansup/masto2pixel) ✨ Self-hostable ✨ Support for other platforms is planned

A poll from the Pew Research Center shows that 55% of U.S. adults favor the federal government restricting false information online.

Discover insights from TrustCon 2023, including generative AI's role in fraud prevention and content moderation. The post Top takeaways from TrustCon 2023 appeared first on Sift Blog.

New report finds an increasingly decentralized social media landscape offers users more choice, but poses technical challenges for addressing child exploitation and other online abuse.

Before this week, Bluesky did not have an automated system in place to prevent people from including the n-word in their handle..

Legal and computer science scholar James Grimmelmann on the legality of content moderation techniques on encrypted apps.

Threads raises concerns similar to other Meta platforms on user safety, policies on hate, harassment, and extremism, transparency, and election integrity.

New data from my team at ADL Center for Technology and Society shows that online hate and harassment have risen to critical levels. Just over half of U.S. adults say they have experienced online hate and harassment in their lifetimes. And it’s not just adults: 51 percent of teenagers say they’ve experienced some form of...

Just recently, Bluesky -- the decentralized social network running on an open protocol called AT Protocol -- announced that as a mechanism for supporting its business financially, it will directly sell domain names as handles for its users. The sales will be processed through an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and...

As rival Threads launches, Eirliani Abdul Rahman discusses the Elon Musk era.

Seeking antidotes for disinformation and declining trust