Business & Tech As Bluesky Blows Up, So Do the Bots With rapid growth, and without a robust content moderation system, Bluesky is already entering an era of bots and misinformation.
Business & Tech Ninth Circuit Sides With Musk In Case About California Social Media Content Moderation Law A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has taken Elon Musk's and Xitter's side in a case concerning a new California law that mandates broad disclosures for social media platforms about their content moderation practices.
Business & Tech Judge Tells Musk His Lawsuit Against Hate-Speech Watchdog Group Is Just 'Punishment' For Their Speech Self-proclaimed 'free speech absolutist' Elon Musk went after several nonprofit organizations last year for their speech last year. One of those lawsuits was just tossed out by a federal judge with a blistering, 52-page order.
Business & Tech Why Did Musk's 'Free-Speech Absolutist' X Platform Take Down New Account From Alexei Navalny's Widow? It is hard to say where we are in the evolution/devolution of Xitter under the leadership of Elon Musk. But in the absence of a robust human team dealing with content moderation, odd contradictions in policy are bound to occur.
Business & Tech Judge Rules That Musk's X Must Abide By California's Content Moderation Law In another blow to Elon Musk's quest for absolute free speech, a federal judge has rejected Musk and his attorneys' argument that a California law requiring social media companies to disclose their content-moderation policies and procedures.
Business & Tech Supreme Court Hands Big Tech a Big Win In Content Moderation Cases Two separate lawsuits against tech companies Google and Twitter both went in favor of the tech titans Thursday, as the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that neither were responsible for terrorist acts that were linked to content on their platforms.
Business & Tech Oof: Trump's Twitter Account Is Back Online After Millions Vote in Poll About Its Reinstatement After Elon Musk's posted a Twitter poll that showed around eight million votes in favor of allowing former President Donald J. Trump back on the platform, Musk tweeted "the people have spoken" Saturday night.
Business & Tech Facebook Oversight Board Issues Its First Rulings On Misinformation, Hate Speech The nascent Oversight Board established by Facebook last year to serve as a "Supreme Court" or final arbiter for thorny content moderation questions has just issued its first five rulings.
Business & Tech Facebook Agrees to Pay $52 Million to Settle Class-Action Suit Brought By Moderators With PTSD Facebook is settling a lawsuit brought by third-party content moderators who say they were traumatized after being exposed to graphic imagery of violence, child sex, and more working for Facebook.
Arts & Entertainment [NSFW] Short Film Explores The Awkward Workplace Of Indian Content Moderators For Dating Sites Who exactly is performing the thankless task of poring over the photos that eager American singles upload to dating sites, and that people all over the world upload to Facebook? The Moderators, a
