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Using a Jury for Content Moderation – Pros and Cons

In a post last month, we discussed Facebook’s end-of-year goal of instituting an independent oversight board to adjudicate what content will be removed from the site. Here we’ll discuss the…

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Facebook Updates Policy for Suicide Prevention

  The last year has seen consistent adjustment of content moderation policies on the part of social media giants. Recently, we discussed the changes that Twitter and Instagram’s policies underwent….

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UGC Moderation: 22 Tips for Choosing the Best Partner

When it comes to doing business online, there’s hardly anything more important than your brand image. It creates recognition and fosters trust. But most importantly, it gives you equity and…

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Twitter and Instagram Update Policies to Combat Bullying

  In previous posts, we’ve discussed the content moderation policies of large social media platforms and the factors that are catalyzing their changes. Recently, Twitter and Instagram announced updates to…

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The Solution to Deepfakes Remains Unclear

  While the aim of leveraging artificial intelligence is to make operations efficient and insightful, there are undoubtedly more nefarious applications of this fast-advancing technology. Deepfakes, one such application, present…

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Taking Advantage of Social Media Contests

  In 2007, Facebook and Twitter laid the ground work for social media contests by introducing features like Fan Pages and hashtags, respectively. However, contests put on by brands didn’t really…

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How to Avoid Litigation from User-Generated-Content

  User-generated content (UGC) is a popular marketing method for a lot of reasons. It’s affordable, it allows brands to produce fresh content, customers trust it, and – perhaps most…

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There’s No Rewind

Recently, YouTube users discovered some horrifying pieces of content, once again highlighting the risk of user generated video, and more broadly, the guarantee that the totality of the human condition…

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Image Moderation: Working Through the Gray Areas

WebPurify co-founder, Joshua Buxbaum, speaks to the growing complexity in enterprise image moderation and the current limitations of machine-based learning for managing branded content. Facebook. YouTube. Google. For several years,…

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The Top 5 Things Missed When AIs Moderate User Generated Content

The current argument for AI-based moderation of user-generated content (UGC) seems to be one partly driven by the big social media platforms as they try to keep up with the subversion…

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