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Leaving content moderation to volunteers is empowering racists

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The Ratio. ?? Non-governmental organizations say American companies pay as much attention to similar situations unfolding in India, Brazil, and Myanmar, among other places. This seems like a disaster in the making. As a result, offline injustices are being replicated in online speech. Here’s Timothy B.

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Cynicism suggests that the TikTok deal will go through

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The tech industry’s inability to properly calculate risk has led to a series of high-profile tech disasters over the last decade , this piece argues. Facebook’s slow response to the threat of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar is the textbook example. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

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Contrast that with last month’s content moderation disaster, which was essentially a bunch of nonsense that was uttered during a live stream of a press conference. As Kevin Roose notes , Indoctornation was the rare piece of misinformation to be announced 887 times ahead of its arrival. It was misinformation with a premiere date.

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