Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Content moderation has always been a nightmare for Meta. Its new content-moderation policy is a huge change — and it could be an ...

While major social-media platforms like X and Meta have slackened content-moderation efforts and slashed third-party fact-checking, up-and-coming microblogging app Bluesky amplified its efforts in ...

The subject of online content moderation has been a controversial topic in the country’s political discourse in recent years. It has also been at the center of the nation’s political divide with those ...

Today is the deadline for public comments regarding a "public inquiry" by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into the "potentially illegal" content moderation practices of social media platforms. As ...

Meta’s surveillance-based business model, built on maximising engagement, can incentivise the amplification of sensational, polarising and harmful content.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to eliminate censorship and content moderation policies blindsided several members of the company’s oversight board — and the U-turn has led to friction among the ...

Periodically, the worlds of advertising and partisan politics collide. An impassioned and often politicized debate has taken center stage around the value of walled garden content moderation. There ...

A shareholder proposal sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) affiliate JLens has the backing of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. Both proxy advisory firms are ...

(WHTM) — Emojis in the comment section could be skirting Meta’s rules against hate speech. The Oversight Board, which sets precedent for content moderation on Facebook and Instagram, ruled in a recent ...

As policies for content moderation and fact-checking enter a new era, one startup is turning to artificial intelligence, rather than humans, to enforce trust and safety measures. Stream NBC 5 for free ...

Social media platforms have historically run their content moderation much like a parent running a house full of teenagers: If you live under my roof, you follow my rules. But as social media has ...

Today is the deadline for public comments regarding a "public inquiry" by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into the "potentially illegal" content moderation practices of social media platforms. As ...