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Don't Be Nice (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-20 | tags: nuxt discord, nazi avatar, open source politics

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Oversight Board says Meta's rules for AI deepfakes are 'consistently and fundamentally inadequate' (engadget.com)

2026-09-17 | by Karissa Bell | tags: oversight board, meta, ai deepfakes

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Online hate researcher keeps hammering X despite deportation threat (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: us immigration, content moderation, citr

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Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down (futurism.com)

2026-09-09 | by Jon Christian | tags: meta, facebook, ai-generated videos

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Australia To Let Social Media Users 'Opt Out' of Algorithm-Based Feeds (slashdot.org)

2026-09-08 | get Kobo Clara Colour ereader → | tags: australia, social media, algorithmic feeds

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UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-08 | by Carrington Malin | tags: falcons ai, hugging face, nsfw classifier

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Congressman says TikTok backed out of a meeting to avoid child safety questions (theverge.com)

2026-09-03 | by Lauren Feiner | get Bark Home parental controls device → | tags: tiktok, china, meta

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Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-26 | get Logitech MX Master 3S → | tags: amazon mechanical turk, crowdsourcing marketplace, data validation

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Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement (theverge.com)

2026-08-26 | by Lauren Feiner | get Circle Home Plus parental controls device → | tags: meta, facebook, antitrust

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This Was a Bad Day for People Who Hate X but Sometimes Like to Read X Posts Anyway (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-26 | get Kindle Paperwhite → | tags: social media, online communities, user engagement

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Bilibili wants to be YouTube's rival everywhere, not just in China (techspot.com)

2026-08-22 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: bilibili, youtube, ai-powered content moderation

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Consumer Rights Wiki (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: wiki, user interface, moderation tools

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Why does Apple keep banning Telegram, but never X? (theverge.com)

2026-08-07 | by Emma Roth | tags: apple, grok, moderation

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TikTok blames ‘moderator error’ on slow response to Perez Hilton livestream (theverge.com)

2026-08-06 | by Emma Roth | tags: crisis, hilton, livestream

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LinkedIn’s new anti-slop button is coming to every platform (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: linkedin, ai content, anti-slop button

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Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: shieldstral, multimodal safety, nvidia gpu

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Telegram CEO says an extortionist planted CSAM in a chat to get it pulled from the App Store (theverge.com)

2026-08-04 | by Emma Roth | tags: telegram, app store, csam

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AI Images Are Everywhere. Here’s What They Do to Our Brains, and What We Can Do. (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-02 | tags: machine learning, neural networks, feed algorithms

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A Week in Matrix (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: matrix, element web, draupnir

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Full school day cellphone bans are more popular than ever (theverge.com)

2026-07-29 | by Lauren Feiner | tags: pew research center, silicon valley, the verge

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Meta won’t have to face the next planned social media addiction trial (theverge.com)

2026-07-22 | by Lauren Feiner | tags: meta, facebook, social media

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YouTube Cracks Down on ‘Off-Putting Content’ and AI Slop (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: youtube, content moderation, google

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TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool (theverge.com)

2026-07-17 | by Jay Peters | tags: tiktok, ai likeness detection, jumio

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Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-15 | tags: boasberg, content moderation, department

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Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-07 | by Lauren Forristal | get Discord AI Moderation Tool → | tags: account, automated, discord

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Meta has been secretly relying on Google's AI for customer service, ad tools, and content moderation – then got cut off (techspot.com)

2026-06-29 | get Google AI Customer Service Tool → | tags: meta, google, financial times

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Substack’s new ‘Reply Rules’ feature lets creators control how people respond (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-03 | by Lauren Forristal | get Substack Reply Rules Guide → | tags: substack, reply rules, ai filtering

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Plex adds new social features ahead of a major price hike for its lifetime pass (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-03 | by Lauren Forristal | get Plex Media Server → | tags: plex, letterboxd, reddit

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‘We’re Just Getting the Crumbs Here’: Contractors Protest Layoffs at Meta’s European Headquarters (wired.com)

2026-05-29 | by Joel Khalili | get Meta Contractors Protest Hoodie → | tags: meta, covalen, ireland

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'We’re Just Getting the Crumbs Here': Striking Contractors Protest Layoffs at Meta’s European Headquarters (wired.com)

2026-05-29 | by Joel Khalili | get Meta Protest T-Shirt → | tags: meta, covalen, content moderation