The Sanitised Platform

Griffin, Rachel

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4007098

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“…Evidence of how social media platforms moderate content suggests that this over-enforcement will disproportionately suppress marginalized users and nonmainstream viewpoints." (Griffin, 2022). Thus, automated algorithms and now what is perceived to be more sophisticated AI are tasked with this complex process.…”

Section: Government Legal Actionmentioning

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“Highly nuanced policy is very difficult to apply at scale”: Examining researcher account and content takedowns online

Zelin

2023

Policy & Internet

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Since 2019, researchers examining, archiving, and collecting extremist and terrorist materials online have increasingly been taken offline. In part a consequence of the automation of content moderation by different technology companies and national governments calling for ever quicker takedowns. Based on an online survey of peers in the field, this research highlights that up to 60% of researchers surveyed have had either their accounts or content they have posted or stored online taken down from varying platforms. Beyond the quantitative data, this research also garnered qualitative answers about concerns individuals in the field had related to this problem set, namely, the lack of transparency on the part of the technology companies, hindering actual research and understanding of complicated and evolving issues related to different extremist and terrorist phenomena, undermining potential collaboration within the research field, and the potential of self‐censorship online. An easy solution to this would be a whitelist, though there are inherent downsides related to this as well, especially between researchers at different levels in their careers, institutional affiliation or lack thereof, and inequalities between researchers from the West versus Global South. Either way, securitizing research in however form it evolves in the future will fundamentally hurt research.

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Section: Government Legal Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Highly nuanced policy is very difficult to apply at scale”: Examining researcher account and content takedowns online

Zelin

2023

Policy & Internet

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“…While EU law does not require such bans, it has enabled this dynamic to emerge: it authorises business models which encourage reliance on mobile apps to maximise data collection; permits platforms to arbitrarily ban broad categories of content; and has permitted the emergence of an app store duopoly. Notably, the Commission has investigated Apple for potential abuse of dominance regarding its 30% commission on in-app payments, but has chosen not to intervene in its use of market dominance to enforce blanket bans on sexual content across a wide swathe of the internet (Griffin, 2022a).…”

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Public and Private Power in Social Media Governance: Multistakeholderism, the Rule of Law and Democratic Accountability

Griffin

2022

SSRN Journal

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‘Just a little hack’: Investigating cultures of content moderation circumvention by Facebook users

Gillett

Gray

Kaye

2023

New Media & Society

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As social media platforms adapt their rules to limit the presence, spread, and amplification of harmful content on their services, users develop strategies to circumvent content moderation policies. To better understand cultures of content moderation circumvention, including the types of rules that Facebook users seek to circumvent, we analysed a sample of YouTube videos and Reddit threads in which users discuss content moderation circumvention. We show how Facebook users turn to others across platforms to obtain information about circumvention methods. We observe that these users often discuss overcoming Facebook’s content moderation policies in terms that downplay the significance of their intended actions. We suggest that where Facebook’s policies and enforcement measures fail to deter rule violations that may facilitate harm, Facebook should consider new culture-driven approaches to platform governance that foster prosocial environments and engender compliance with platform rules.

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The Sanitised Platform

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

“Highly nuanced policy is very difficult to apply at scale”: Examining researcher account and content takedowns online

“Highly nuanced policy is very difficult to apply at scale”: Examining researcher account and content takedowns online

Public and Private Power in Social Media Governance: Multistakeholderism, the Rule of Law and Democratic Accountability

‘Just a little hack’: Investigating cultures of content moderation circumvention by Facebook users

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