content moderation
Automation in Online Content Moderation: In Search of Lost Legitimacy and the Risks of Censorship
August 8, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
VOX-Pol Workshop: Content Moderation and (Violent) Extremism
August 2, 2024Content takedowns have emerged as one of the central pillars in the global fight against disinformation and extremism. Despite their increasing ubiquity as disruptive tools in political processes, their true efficacy remains up for debate. We ‘know’, for example, that takedowns had a strong disruptive effect on Islamic State-supporting networks online, but we do not ...
VOX-Pol Workshop: Borderline Online Content
August 1, 2024VOX-Pol is pleased to share the latest online workshop on “Borderline Online Content” which took place in June 2024. The workshop is hosted by Brigitte Naderer, Senior Researcher at the Medical University of Vienna, Heidi Schulze Research Associate at LMU Munich, and Diana Rieger, Professor at LMU Munich. The presenters will speak on topics around ...
Terrorist Content Online and Threats to Freedom of Expression: From Legal Restrictions to Choreographed Content Moderation
July 31, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Breaking the Building Blocks of Hate: A Case Study of Minecraft Servers
September 18, 2023The online game Minecraft, owned by Microsoft, has amassed 141 million active users since it was launched in 2011. It is used in school communities, among friend groups and even has been employed by the U.N. Despite its ubiquity as an online space, little has been reported on how hate and harassment manifest in Minecraft, ...
Social media corporations as actors of counter-terrorism
September 18, 2023This article discusses the role of giant social media corporations Facebook, Google (YouTube), and Twitter in counter-terrorism and countering violent extremisms (CT/CVEs). Based on a qualitative investigation mobilizing corporate communications as well as a collection of interviews with European stakeholders, it argues that these firms have become actors in this policy area of what is ...