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After Christchurch: how do we curtail the spread of video from atrocities?

The Christchurch attack was a terrorist event for the social media age. We need to address this situation on multiple levels to minimise the harm done.

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Facebook's treatment of its content moderators: another attempt to avoid paying the costs of scale

Casey Newton has talked to many of Facebook's outsourced content moderators - and the picture is appalling.

The New York Times battles trolls with AI

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The New York Times battles trolls with AI

I’ve spent a significant chunk of today reading about AI, for another writing project. That led me back to a piece, about the New York Times harnessing AI system

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Inside the Facebook censorship machine

Fascinating interview with Monika Bickert, the head of global policy for Facebook: We use technology to help us triage reports, and we also use Microsoft’s Photo DNA to help us prevent images of child exploitation from being uploaded to the site, but human