Meta Platforms Inc.’s messaging service WhatsApp will face stricter rules under the European Union’s content moderation rulebook, as the bloc increases scrutiny of social media. The EU’s executive ...

Microsoft is working to resolve an outage affecting its Azure Front Door content delivery network (CDN), which is preventing customers from accessing some Microsoft 365 services. According to Redmond, ...

New York is mandating that major social media apps disclose the volume of their hate speech and misinformation. On Thursday, Oct. 2, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the start of a ...

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TikTok plans to lay off hundreds of workers in the U.K., as the video platform turns to artificial intelligence to automate content moderation. Social-media companies built teams dedicated to policing ...

Kevin decided on a career in content moderation after his YouTube recommendations took a bewildering swerve. In 2021, videos appeared on his feed depicting violent attacks by Boko Haram, a Nigerian ...

Through the perspective of an unflappable social-media content moderator, Elaine Castillo’s new novel exposes the often invisible dirty work of the digital era. By Rhoda Feng Rhoda Feng is a freelance ...

"Sometimes the only way to stop a bad thing is with another bad thing." Brainstorm Media has unveiled the official trailer for an indie film titled American Sweatshop, a modern thriller about social ...

A former content moderator for the porn site Chaturbate has sued the platform and its affiliates, claiming that he was psychologically harmed by his ongoing exposure to the sexual material on the site ...

On July 9, 2025, AEI hosted an expert panel that examined the US Supreme Court’s recent First Amendment decisions affecting free speech and technology policy, including the 2025 rulings in Free Speech ...