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Leaving content moderation to volunteers is empowering racists

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A similar dynamic is playing out on the neighborhood social network NextDoor, where a let-the-users-do-it approach to moderation has left many black users feeling fearing for their safety. The Ratio. ?? Aviv Ovadya did ; he has a nice list of problems he faced as a groups admin here.).

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Facebook’s big QAnon crackdown might have come too late

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The “Tide Pods challenge” surged on social networks in 2018, and ultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposed to whatever extremely inedible substance is actually inside Tide Pods. Of teenagers who were affected, more than a quarter of the cases were intentional, the Washington Post reported at the time.

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It’s (still) time to end ‘Trending’ on Twitter

The Verge

In August 2019, after the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, conspiracy theories about what had happened ran rampant on social networks. The company said it caught the network early, before it had a chance to build a large audience. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Sorry for the errors.

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