Instagram adds new controls for limiting sexual and violent content in the Explore tab [TechCrunch]
Instagram is giving its users a tiny bit more power to see what they want — and not see what
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Twitch suspends two popular female creators over sexy ASMR streams [TechCrunch]
Popular Twitch streamers Amouranth and Indiefoxx are the two latest casualties of Twitch’s ongoing battle to enforce its own confusing
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Facebook, Instagram users can now ask ‘oversight’ panel to review decisions not to remove content [TechCrunch]
Facebook’s self-styled ‘Oversight Board’ (FOB) has announced an operational change that looks intended to respond to criticism of the limits
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Facebook’s Oversight Board already ‘a bit frustrated’ — and it hasn’t made a call on Trump ban yet [TechCrunch]
The Facebook Oversight Board (FOB) is already feeling frustrated by the binary choices it’s expected to make as it reviews
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TikTok calls in outside help with content moderation in Europe [TechCrunch]
TikTok is bringing in external experts in Europe in fields such as child safety, young people’s mental health and extremism
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Facebook Oversight Board says other social networks ‘welcome to join’ if project succeeds [TechCrunch]
The Facebook Oversight Board has only been operational for a short time, but the nascent project is already looking ahead.
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YouTube puts a temporary freeze on uploads to Trump’s channel [TechCrunch]
YouTube has been the slowest of the big social media platforms to react to the threat of letting president Trump
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Substack explains its ‘hands-off’ approach to content moderation [TechCrunch]
Content moderation has been a thorny topic in 2020. And when I say “thorny,” I mean in the sense of
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Twitter changes its hacked materials policy in wake of New York Post controversy [TechCrunch]
Twitter has announced an update to its hacked materials policy — saying it will no longer remove hacked content unless
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