Meta’s official rationale for ending its independent factchecking in favour of crowdsourced contributions centres on ...

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Meta's 2023 implementation of 'guardrails' for high-spending advertisers raises concerns about fairness and transparency.

Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul of its content moderation policies, taking off some guardrails that it had put in place over several years ...

YouTube's content moderation policies forbid "content praising or justifying violent acts carried out by violent extremist, criminal, or terrorist organizations." "This means we remove content ...

In previous years, Meta put strict measures in place to address growing concerns about misinformation, such as forming an Oversight Committee and enhancing content moderation policies to help ...

Content moderation systems across the company’s platforms, which include Facebook, Instagram and Threads, have “gone too far,” and are blocking users’ free expression too often ...

“Given the variations, complexities, and scarcity of training datasets, the current content moderation systems used to regulate Kiswahili content online have significant shortcomings that affect ...

This means that moderation has to have a human ... “Recommendation algorithms highly value engagement, and ED content is very popular,” she told me. If I had searched for something less ...

noting more harmful content will appear on the platform as a result of the content moderation changes. Meta’s newly appointed Chief of Global Affairs Joel Kaplan told Fox on Tuesday that Meta ...