“Why does trying to drink less feel so mentally exhausting?” I get this question from clients all the time. In fact, I know the exhaustion too well personally. I remember the days when I first tried ...

When Brett Levenson left Apple in 2019 to lead business integrity at Facebook, the social media giant was in the thick of the Cambridge Analytica fallout. At the time, he thought he could simply fix ...

If you have ever played Roblox, you know how wild and unpredictable the platform can get. Now, Roblox is using that same unpredictability as a reason to overhaul how it moderates content. The platform ...

Amnesty International has today warned that Bangladesh could face more incidents of serious human rights abuses unless Meta takes timely and effective action to address harmful online content on its ...

A new briefing paper produced by the London Social Media Observatory (LSMO) at Royal Holloway and Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) details emerging risks to democratic participation on ...

Every election cycle, Washington convinces itself that this will be the moment voters finally come home. Republicans think frustrated Americans will sprint back to the GOP once Democrats take a stance ...

TikTok has officially closed its long-anticipated deal with the U.S., aiming to address government concerns with data security and content moderation. But for many creators, the closure does little to ...

Lauren Fichten is a journalist at CBS News covering artificial intelligence, digital safety and online extremism. She joined CBS News after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill and was previously an ...

Kevin decided on a career in content moderation after his YouTube recommendations took a bewildering swerve. In 2021, videos appeared on his feed depicting violent attacks by Boko Haram, a Nigerian ...

Elaine Castillo’s second novel, “Moderation,” opens with a blistering portrait of social media’s toxic underbelly. At the social media platform Reeden, moderators are charged with removing harmful ...