Content Moderation Case Study: Bumble Shuts Down Sharon Stone's Account, Not Believing It's Really Her (2019)
Summary: Almost any platform that allows users to create accounts eventually has to deal with questions of identity and impersonation...
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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 Mastodon's interlinked "fediverse." Or they can remain independent, creating a completely siloed version of Mastodon that has ...
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 COVID) in Nigeria. In Nigeria, there’s a notorious division called the Special Anti-Robbery Squad...
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...