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Making the Case for Content Moderation

Social Media Today 25th Sept 2014 by Jess Ullrich

Machine moderation of user generated content

The advent of Web 2.0 and mobile computing has significantly increased the volumes of User Generated Content (UGC). In order to protect their brand and user experience, websites hosting UGC often ...

IA in the News: Image Analyzer reduces social media moderation costs by 50% for Tagged

Background

Google shuns porn in ads, apps

Google is cracking down on sexually graphic content with two recent policy changes, one implemented in March and one that started last week. The new rules take steps to eliminate explicit material in ...

The human cost of content moderation?

Some people would argue that spending hours of every day in a darkened room being paid to watch images and videos sounds like a great job, but the reality is much different.

It really doesn’t have to be this way!

An excellent article in The Telegraph newspaper today highlights the extent of under-age access to adult material on the internet.

Online porn and bullying – children ‘need more protection’

Stronger action must be taken to protect children from online bullying and pornography, MPs have said.

40% of young people are sexting

A series of recent research studies reveals the true scale of sexting in schools today:

Man loses job after accidentally texting explicit image to female HR manager of his new employer

The unidentified man is believed to be from Chicago

Facebook announces new tools to tackle video theft

Facebook has announced measures to tackle video piracy on its website.