Under pressure from politicians, activists, and media, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube all made policy changes and enforcement decisions this year that they had long resisted—from labeling false ...

Content moderation has been a thorny topic in 2020. And when I say “thorny,” I mean in the sense of having multiple congressional hearings on the subject. Twitter and Facebook in particular have been ...

Whenever Twitch announces a new approach to handling harassment on the platform, there’s been a common, overwhelming response from streamers: “Please, please, be more than just words. Please follow ...

Meta will allow political ads on its platforms to question the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election, part of a rollback in election-related content moderation among major social media ...

is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. But in the meantime, I think it’s not too early to ask a related question: how did platforms handle the 2016 challenge ...

evelyn douek shares her thoughts on content moderation in 2020 with WIRED. “I think we’ll look back on 2020 as the year when they finally accepted that they have some responsibility for the content on ...