Facebook content moderation

Facebook sees rise in violent content and harassment after policy changes

Violent and graphic content increased

you cannot post anything about abortion pills and mail without getting them taken down

Interesting policies.

they are sticking to their policy on this

form a safety council to rethink its content moderation policies

10 strikes and you're out policy

they have a new page named after the town's postcode

the page was removed in error and has since been swiftly restored

Not in terms of, like, the moderation that’s necessary.

They know how to fail with content moderation.

You know how we talk about how companies need to have moderations and moderators?

They say that you have to send it to them, and they'll approve it.

we have been following what's been going on with Facebook

NYU report offers a plan for the content moderation industry.

Double the number of human moderators.

If you're a politician, you can run anything you want.

moderators who developed PTSD and other mental conditions

delete any content related to pedophilia and terrorism within one hour

shutting down its entire content moderation division

there are no clear rules to follow

they all say, well, it's impossible to do content moderation at scale

Automated moderation is not good enough.

racism, misogyny and homophobia are allowed to flourish basically unchecked

It's a giant post on how Facebook moderation works

once you start to moderate, then you're responsible for all the content

released a public version of its guidelines for what is and is not allowed on the site

The automated algorithms going through trying to vet content is miserably bad

A lot of real human eyeballs are being put on all the content

People got to look at the rules ... deciding what posts get taken down.

It does seem to be a tad ... on the side of the rich whitey.

The story on Wired about content moderation farms in the Philippines.

If you sit there and are looking at dick pics, beheadings, things up the snooch all day long, it messes with you.

The outsourcing, the tiny amount of money that they’re actually being paid to do this.