Content Moderation: How it Works, Why it Works and Best Practices
The role of a content moderator is to be both a judge and a janitor of the internet, according to Alex Feerst, general counsel at Neuralink. In a Broadband Bre…
Content Moderation
Facts and Where to Find Them: Empirical Research on Internet Platforms and Content Moderation
Abstract Reliable information about platforms’ content removal systems was, for many years, hard to come by. But data and disclosures are steadily emerging as…
The Lawfare Podcast: Daphne Keller on Legal Liability for Tech Platforms
In this episode of the Arbiters of Truth series—Lawfare's new podcast series on disinformation in the run-up to the 2020 election—Quinta Jurecic and Evelyn…
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It’s U.S. vs. World as Big Tech Faces Specter of Limiting Speech Online
"“Be mad at tech, that’s understandable,” Alex Feerst, head of legal policy for the online publishing site Medium, said at a recent event on the “unintenti…
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Microsoft CLO Calls for Content Moderation, Tech Collaboration After New Zealand Shooting
"Calls for tighter content moderation policies have not come without concern. Some lawyers, including Annemarie Bridy, professor of law and affiliate schol…
Platform Justice: Content Moderation at an Inflection Point
On Thursday, Sept. 6, Twitter permanently banned the right-wing provocateur Alex Jones and his conspiracy theorist website Infowars from its platform. This was…
Platform Justice
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD .PDF The role of dominant content platforms like Facebook and Twitter in facilitating Russian election interference in the 2016 US presi…
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Trump complains about bias on Twitter and Google — but what can he do about it? 8 experts weigh in.
"We don’t have nearly enough information to see the big picture and know what speech platforms are taking down. For the most part, we only find out when th…
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The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook’s Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People
"Danielle Citron, author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace and a professor at the University of Maryland’s law school, told Motherboard that Facebook’s “oh shit…
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Facebook Found “Hate Speech” in the Declaration of Independence
"Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland who works with Facebook’s non-consensual intimate images advisory group in an unpaid capaci…
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YouTube keeps deleting evidence of Syrian chemical weapon attacks
"However, a video for example showing Isis recruitment can violate the law in one context, but also be legal and important for purposes such as documenting…
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Lessons From Making Internet Companies Liable For User's Speech: You Get Less Speech, Less Security And Less Innovation
"Stanford's Daphne Keller is one of the world's foremost experts on intermediary liability protections and someone we've mentioned on the websi…