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Fri, Apr 30th 2021 3:40pm — Copia Institute Summary: Craigslist -- the online marketplace that pretty much still looks the way it looked when it went live all the way back in 1995 -- has the same problems every online marketplace has: spammers and scammers. The battle against people seeking to abuse the system has been ongoing since the sites inception, but in 2008, Craigslist implemented a new control measure that temporarily stymied spammers who had found several ways to beat the systems pr...

Fri, Apr 23rd 2021 3:47pm — Copia Institute Summary: Google has long been responsive to court orders demanding the removal of content, if theyre justified. Google has fought back against dubious orders originating from "right to be forgotten" demands from outside the US, and has met no small amount of DMCA abuse head on. But, generally speaking, Google will do whats asked if theres a legal basis for the asking. But not everyone approaching Google acts in good faith. First, there are any numbe...

Fri, Apr 16th 2021 3:38pm — Copia Institute Summary: While the social media/social networking space today is dominated by Facebook, it’s interesting to look at how Facebook’s predecessors dealt with content moderation challenges as well. One of the earliest social networks to reach mainstream recognition was Friendster, founded by Jonathan Abrams in 2002 and launched in early 2003, gaining millions of users who signed up to connect with friends. Originally built as a dating site, it expan...

Wed, Mar 31st 2021 3:36pm — Copia Institute Summary: For years, Google and YouTube have included a trusted flagger program by which certain entities that have shown they “are particularly effective at notifying YouTube” of content violations are given more powerful tools with which to do so. This is used often in the copyright context, and companies with a good history may be given access to things like bulk flagging tools and priority review of flagged content. One such trusted flagger f...

Fri, Mar 12th 2021 3:41pm — Copia Institute Summary: Googles ad service offers purchasers access to millions of users, including those viewing videos on YouTube. But its policies -- meant to prevent abuse, fraud, harassment, or targeting of certain demographics -- sometimes appear to prevent legitimate organizations from doing something as simple as informing others of their existence. Chad Robichaux, the founder of Christian veterans support nonprofit Mighty Oaks, wanted to reach out to vete...

Summary: Almost any platform that allows users to create accounts eventually has to deal with questions of identity and impersonation...

Wed, Mar 3rd 2021 3:41pm — Copia Institute Summary: Formed as a more decentralized alternative to Twitter that allowed users to more directly moderate the content they wanted to see, Mastodon has experienced slow, but steady, growth since its inception in 2016. Unlike other social media networks, Mastodon is built on open-source software and each "instance" (server node) of the network is operated by users. These separate "instances" can be connected with others via Mastodons interlinked "fed...

Fri, Feb 26th 2021 3:35pm — Copia Institute Summary: With the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the large social media companies very quickly put in place policies to try to handle the flood of disinformation about the disease, responses, and treatments. How successful those new policies have been is subject to debate, but in at least one case, the effort to fact check and moderate COVID information ran into a conflict with people reporting on violent protests (totally unrelated to...

Summary: Chatroulette rose to fame shortly after its creation in late 2009. The platform offered a new take on video chat, pairing...

Summary: Google's Street View is a powerful mapping tool that allows users to visit places they'll possibly never be able to...