We encourage social media companies to operate with greater transparency and accountability toward their users as they make decisions that regulate speech.
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We see that the @WhiteHouse has released a tool similar to ours. The difference is we accept reports from anyone, anywhere, for whatever reason. If your content was removed, share your story with us! onlinecensorship.org
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Tune in on Wednesday at 12PM (PST) / 8PM (UK) for a live 'At Home With @EFF' where @ARTICLE19Iran @Article19MENA and @syrian_archive will join @jilliancyork and Corynne McSherry to discuss 'What happens when the content moderators go home'.
📅Details at: eff.org/event/home-eff-covid….
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Taking some more questions tonight on the tech giants: AMA about their inner workings, their covid response, their use of automation, how their internal systems preview what's coming for our workplaces, etc. Hit me with em :)
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During the pandemic, social media platforms have relied heavily on automation to flag more content than ever before. Join EFF and guests from @article19org and @syrian_archive for a virtual conversation about what happens when content moderators go home: eff.org/event/home-eff-covid…
70+ civil society organizations call on Facebook to institute full, human-moderated appeals for ALL users in ALL circumstances, and to implement the Santa Clara Principles santaclaraprinciples.org/ope…
We're thrilled to announce that the new and improved Onlinecensorship.org is now live! Our guide on how to appeal content decisions is freshly updated, and you can now once again submit a report (this time through a much faster process). Thanks to all who made this happen!
In the latest Weekly Takedown: YouTube’s arbitrary enforcement of its moderation policies drew criticism from cannabis vloggers eff.org/r.rlif
Spotify reverses its decision on hate speech, @EFF releases a new report on government takedown requests...and more in the latest Weekly Takedown eff.org/r.vj72
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Just published a new piece in NM+S on how users make sense of content moderation: journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…. Extra special thanks to the @censored team!
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To protect freedom of expression, platforms that engage in content regulation must emphasize public accountability and transparency, says a new report by Special Rapporteur to the UN, @davidakaye.
freedex.org/a-human-rights-a…
The @EFF's 2018 Who Has Your Back? report focuses on censorship, rating companies on five metrics: eff.org/who-has-your-back-20…
The Weekly Takedown will be on hiatus this Friday, but keep an eye out for our team members at #RightsCon2018!
What proportion of social media posts get moderated, and why? digitalsocialcontract.net/wh…
The Santa Clara Principles set a new standard for platform moderation, but will Google and Facebook take notice? theverge.com/2018/5/7/173287…
Users deserve transparency and accountability, which is why we’ve released the Santa Clara Principles...and more news in this week’s Takedown: onlinecensorship.org/news-an…
New rules challenge Google and Facebook to change the way they moderate users theverge.com/2018/5/7/173287…
Several organizations (including @EFF @ACLU_NorCal @CenDemTech @OTI) announce today the launch of the Santa Clara Principles, a set of minimum standards for tech companies to augment and strengthen their content moderation policies eff.org/press/releases/eff-a…
What Comes After the Social Media Empires - by @Buzzfeed's editor in chief @BuzzFeedBen buzzfeed.com/bensmith/facebo…