moderation
The Importance of Proportionality and Transparency in the Moderation of Borderline Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content
August 12, 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 ...
Using AI to monitor the internet for terror content is inescapable – but also fraught with pitfalls
July 23, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Governing Hate: Facebook and Digital Racism
September 18, 2023This article is concerned with identifying the ideological and techno-material parameters that inform Facebook’s approach to racism and racist contents. The analysis aims to contribute to studies of digital racism by showing Facebook’s ideological position on racism and identifying its implications. To understand Facebook’s approach to racism, the article deconstructs its governance structures, locating racism ...
Online Extremism
September 18, 2023The internet can leave users vulnerable to social challenges, which creates opportunities for extremism to spread. Users can be exposed to extremism in multiple ways, including through recruitment and socialisation. Extremist content may be found on mainstream social media sites and ‘alt-tech’ platforms, which replicate the functions of mainstream social media but have been created ...