| Date |
Outlet/Author |
Title |
| 12-15-2020 |
Access Now |
DSA: European Commission delivers on the first step toward systemic rules for online platforms |
| 3-16-2021 |
Access Now |
After nearly two decades in the dark, Facebook releases its human rights policy |
| 6-2020 |
ADL |
ADL Online Hate & Harrasment Survey |
| 8-13-2020 |
ADL |
Extremists are Using a Range of Techniques to Exploit TikTok |
|
ADL |
ADL Cyber Safety Action Guide |
| 8-14-2019 |
Advocate |
Eight YouTube Creators Sue Google for Bias Against LGBTQ Content |
| 9-16-2019 |
Advocate |
Over 73 Percent of LGBTQ Content Online Flagged as ‘Inappropriate’ |
| 12-3-20 |
Al Jazeera |
Twitter expands hate speech rules to include race, ethnicity |
| 8-28-20 |
Alive |
Why a new push to ‘Save the Children’ isn’t as innocent as it sounds |
| 11-16-2020 |
AP |
Hate crimes in US reach highest level in more than a decade |
| 2-1-2021 |
Atlantic Council |
Free speech and online content: What can the US learn from Europe? |
| 2-18-2021 |
Axios |
Tech giants list principles for handling harmful content |
| 4-2-2019 |
Bloomberg |
YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant |
| 12-7-20 |
Bloomberg |
U.S., States Poised to Sue Facebook for Monopoly Abuse |
| 9-21-20 |
Brookings |
The push for content moderation legislation around the world |
| 2019 |
BSR |
BSR Report on Facebook Oversight Board |
| 10-2020 |
BuiltIn |
THE INTERNET SHOULD BE MORE LIKE WIKIPEDIA |
| 11-1-2018 |
Business Insider |
Instagram needs a more comprehensive content moderation solution |
| 11-24-20 |
Business Insider |
Mark Zuckerberg reportedly signed off on a Facebook algorithm change that favored established news sites and made feeds ‘nicer’ after the election |
| 7-14-2020 |
Buzzfeed |
Data Collection And State Surveillance Put LGBTQ People At Risk Online And Off |
| 7-2020 |
Buzzfeed |
“Hurting People at Scale” — Facebook Employees Reckon with the Social Network They’ve Built |
| 8-28-2020 |
Buzzfeed |
Facebook Employees Are Outraged At Mark Zuckerberg’s Explanations Of How It Handled The Kenosha Violence |
| 12-10-2020 |
Buzzfeed |
Facebook Gets Rich Off Of Ads That Rip Off Its Users |
| 12-11-20 |
Buzzfeed |
After The US Election, Key People Are Leaving Facebook And Torching The Company In Departure Notes |
| 8-14-2019 |
Buzzfeed |
LGBTQ Creators Are Suing YouTube For Discrimination |
| 1-17-2021 |
CBS News |
A protected right? Free speech and social media |
|
Center for Human Technology |
Ledger of Harms: Center for Human Technology |
| 10-2018 |
Change the Terms |
Change the Terms report: Recommended Internet Company Corporate Policies and Terms of Service to Reduce Hateful Activities |
|
Change the Terms |
Change the Terms |
| 12-3-2020 |
CNET |
YouTube will ask you to rethink posting that comment if AI thinks it’s offensive |
| 7-11-2020 |
CNN |
Instagram and Facebook ban all content promoting conversion therapy |
| 8-13-2020 |
Consumer Reports |
On Social Media, Only Some Lies Are Against the Rules |
| 8-13-2020 |
Consumer Reports |
How to Filter Hate Speech, Hoaxes, and Violent Clips Out of Your Social Feeds |
| 4-7-2020 |
Consumer Reports |
Facebook Approved Ads With Coronavirus Misinformation |
| 3-10-2020 |
Dazed |
Transphobic TikTok users are labelling their sexuality ‘super straight’ |
| 7-8-2020 |
Dr. Chris Gilliard |
FB – Facebook Cannot Separate Itself From the Hate It Spreads |
| 8-27-2020 |
Dr. Chris Gilliard |
Facebook’s Technocratic Reports Hide Its Failures on Abuse |
| 3-18-2021 |
EFF |
Twitter, Trump, and Tough Decisions: EU Freedom of Expression and the Digital Services Act |
| 12-15-2020 |
EFF |
European Commission’s Proposed Digital Services Act Got Several Things Right, But Improvements Are Necessary to Put Users in Control |
| 1-20-2021 |
Fast Company |
These 14 principles could help big platforms create healthier social media |
| 1-27-2021 |
Fight for the Future |
70+ Civil Rights and Social Justice Organizations Warn Against Repealing or Making Overbroad Changes to Section 230 in Wake of Capitol Attack |
| 7-27-2020 |
First Draft |
The psychology of misinformation: How to prevent it |
| 12-10-2020 |
First Draft |
We need independent platform oversight in 2021 |
| 1-17-2021 |
First Draft |
AI won’t solve the problem of moderating audiovisual media |
| 2017 |
First Monday |
Why media companies insist they’re not media companies, why they’re wrong, and why it matters |
| 6-26-2020 |
Forbes |
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri Openly Addresses Content Moderation Tensions |
| 6-29-2020 |
Forbes |
YouTube Bans White Supremacists Stefan Molyneux, Richard Spencer, David Duke |
| 8-11-2020 |
Forbes |
Hateful posts on Facebook and Instagram soar |
| 6-4-2018 |
Forbes |
YouTube Is Running ‘Anti-LGBT’ Ads Alongside Videos By LGBT Creators |
| 10-23-20 |
Fortune |
Is it time for a new agency to oversee Big Tech? Many say yes |
| 1-19-2021 |
Gizmodo |
Facebook Promised to Stop Promoting Political Groups, You’ll Never Believe What Happened Next |
| 11-26-20 |
Guardian |
New UK tech regulator to limit power of Google and Facebook |
| 12-11-2020 |
Guardian |
I warned in 2018 YouTube was fueling far-right extremism. |
| 11-22-2019 |
Guardian |
SNL producer and film-maker are latest to accuse YouTube of anti-LGBT bias |
| 5-7-2020 |
Ha’aretz |
Facebook Urged to Do More to Stop LGBT+ Hate Speech in Arab Countries |
| 1-13-2021 |
HBR |
How Social Media’s Obsession with Scale Supercharged Disinformation |
| 1-21-2021 |
House.gov |
Reps. Eshoo and Malinowski Lead Dozens of Colleagues in Urging Tech CEOs to Fix Dangerous Algorithms |
| 3-8-2021 |
Insider |
A social-media trend has people identifying as ‘super straight.’ The transphobic campaign was meant to divide LGBTQ people. |
| 2018 |
Jeff Lawson Medium blog |
Words matter, and they’re destabilizing the American tribe |
| 12-26-2020 |
LA Blade |
Instagram’s anti-LGBTQ trolls use algorithms & zap gay influencers |
| 1-28-2021 |
Lawfare |
The Facebook Oversight Board’s First Decisions: Ambitious, and Perhaps Impractical |
| 8-3-2019 |
Logic |
Another Network is Possible |
| 9-1-2020 |
Mashable |
The algorithms defining sexuality suck. Here’s how to make them better. |
| 7-16-20 |
Media Matters |
Facebook said it will ban content promoting conversion therapy. It should start by removing these pages. |
| 7-20-20 |
Media Matters |
The right is dominating Facebook engagement on content about trans issues |
| 9-11-20 |
Media Matters |
Facebook is profiting from harmful anti-trans political ads despite its hate speech policies |
| 11-23-20 |
Media Matters |
YouTube removed anti-trans PragerU videos for violating hate speech policies |
| 1-2-2021 |
Media Matters |
5 things social media platforms can do to combat anti-LGBTQ disinformation |
| 3-31-2021 |
Media Matters |
YouTube is allowing PragerU to fundraise off encouraging parents to reject their trans kids |
| 10-5-2020 |
MIT Tech Review |
Thank you for posting: Smoking’s lessons for regulating social media |
| 11-6-2020 |
MIT Tech Review |
Why social media can’t keep moderating content in the shadows |
| 6-22-2020 |
Mozilla |
Mozilla’s response to EU Commission Public Consultation on AI |
| 9-25-20 |
NBC News |
While Facebook works to create an oversight board, industry experts formed their own |
| 10-19-20 |
New Yorker |
Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself |
| 11-29-2018 |
NYT |
How Twitter’s Ban on ‘Deadnaming’ Promotes Free Speech |
| 5-6-2019 |
NYT |
A Tax That Could Fix Big Tech |
| 4-26-2020 |
NYT |
Dozens of Gay Men Are Outed in Morocco as Photos Are Spread Online |
| 7-1-2020 |
NYT |
Facebook Can’t Be Reformed |
| 10-9-20 |
NYT |
Twitter Will Turn Off Some Features to Fight Election Misinformation |
| 10-13-2020 |
NYT |
The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation |
| 10-22-20 |
NYT |
Forget Antitrust Laws. To Limit Tech, Some Say a New Regulator Is Needed. |
| 10-29-2020 |
NYT |
On Instagram, 11,696 Examples of How Hate Thrives on Social Media |
| 11-5-2020 |
NYT |
On Election Day, Facebook and Twitter Did Better by Making Their Products Worse |
| 11-5-2020 |
NYT |
Facebook, Alarmed by Discord Over Vote Count, Is Said to Be Taking Action |
| 11-25-20 |
NYT |
Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth |
| 12-10-20 |
NYT |
Yes, Facebook Has Become a Menace |
| 12-16-20 |
NYT |
Facebook reverses postelection algorithm changes that boosted news from authoritative sources |
| 1-13-2021 |
NYT |
Now Social Media Grows a Conscience? |
| 2-2-2021 |
NYT |
How to Fix Facebook Groups |
| 2-4-2021 |
NYT |
I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age |
| 6-2020 |
NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights |
Who Moderates the Social Media Giants? A Call to End Outsourcing |
| 6-2020 |
NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights |
Summary of recommendations – Who Moderates the Social Media Giants? |
| 9-2020 |
NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights |
Regulating Social Media: The Fight Over Section 230 — and Beyond |
| 9-2020 |
NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights |
Summary of recommendations – Regulating social media |
| 7-8-2020 |
One Zero |
De-escalating Social Media: Designing humility and forgiveness into social media products |
| 7-8-2020 |
One Zero |
Facebook Cannot Separate Itself From the Hate It Spreads |
| 12-19-2018 |
Out.com |
How Russia Manipulated LGBTQ+ Americans During the Election |
| 1-11-2021 |
Platformer |
Three questions about tech after Trump |
| 1-29-2021 |
Politico |
Zuckerberg’s pledge to depoliticize Facebook hits grassroots movements |
| 3-15-2021 |
Popbuzz |
TikTok bans the super straight movement and its creator |
| 12-2017 |
Pro Publica |
Facebook’s Uneven Enforcement of Hate Speech Rules Allows Vile Posts to Stay Up |
| 7-2-2019 |
ProPublica |
Civil Rights Groups Have Been Warning Facebook About Hate Speech In Secret Groups For Years |
| 5-27-2020 |
Protocol |
How a screenshot started a fight that took over Reddit |
| 7-14-2020 |
Protocol |
Moderation can’t wait: The challenges startups like Clubhouse face trying to build community |
| 4-4-2021 |
Protocol |
Amy Klobuchar’s new legislation should scare Big Tech |
| 9-8-2020 |
Quartz |
TikTok is suppressing LGBT content in Eastern Europe and the Middle East |
| 11-2-2020 |
Rappler |
Technology’s tsunami |
| 1-2-2021 |
Rappler |
WATCH: At Web Summit, Ressa urges social media to rethink business model, take responsibility |
| 10-2020 |
Reddit policy post |
Understanding hate on Reddit, and the impact of our new policy |
| 6-10-2019 |
Refinery29 |
Instagram Is Celebrating Pride With More Inclusive Gender Pronouns |
| 11-20-20 |
Rest of World |
Facebook’s experimental hate-speech policy seems to be working |
| 8-20-2020 |
Reuters |
TikTok removes 380,000 videos in U.S. for violating hate speech policy |
| 8-20-2020 |
Reuters |
TikTok removes 380,000 videos in U.S. for violating hate speech policy |
| 8-21-20 |
Slate |
Social Media Platforms Need to Flatten the Curve of Dangerous Misinformation |
| 9-25-2020 |
Slate |
TikTok’s Surprising Transparency Efforts |
| 10-21-20 |
Slate |
Mad About the Boi |
| 11-20-20 |
Slate |
Twitter Has Set Itself Up for an Enormous New Content Moderation Problem |
| 12-2-20 |
Slate |
Platform Regulation Should Focus on Transparency, Not Content |
| 12-14-2020 |
Slate |
How the Facebook Case Could Revitalize Our Broken Antitrust Law |
| 6-2020 |
Social Media & Society |
Tiered Governance and Demonetization: The Shifting Terms of Labor and Compensation in the Platform Economy |
| 11-2020 |
Social Media & Society |
Birds of a Feather Get Recommended Together: Algorithmic Homophily in YouTube’s Channel Recommendations in the United States and Germany |
| 12-3-2020 |
Social Media Today |
YouTube Outlines New Measures to Combat Hate Speech on its Platform |
| 8-2020 |
Social Science Research Council |
Misinformation is Everybody’s Problem Now |
| 12-19 |
Stanford |
Bing’s Top Search Results Contain an Alarming Amount of Disinformation |
| 6-17-2020 |
Stop Hate for Profit |
Stop Hate for Profit – progress report |
|
Stop Hate for Profit |
Stop Hate for Profit – demands |
| 12-22-20 |
Substack |
Substack’s view of content moderation |
| 9-11-2017 |
Tech Crunch |
Study finds Reddit’s controversial ban of its most toxic subreddits actually worked |
| 1-15-2021 |
Tech Crunch |
Twitter’s decentralized future |
| 5-21-2020 |
Tech Transparency Project |
White Supremacist Groups Are Thriving on Facebook [+ 2 PDF reports] |
| 9-9-20 |
TechCrunch |
Instagram is Building Product Equity Team |
| 12-30-2020 |
TechCrunch |
Understanding Europe’s big push to rewrite the digital rulebook |
| 8-19-2020 |
TechDirt |
Ricky Byrdsong And The Cost Of Speech |
| 1-2021 |
Television & New Media Journal |
Racism, Hate Speech, and Social Media: A Systematic Review and Critique |
| 8-19-2020 |
The Atlantic |
The Facts Just Aren’t Getting Through |
| 11-23-20 |
The Atlantic |
Right-Wing Social Media Finalizes Its Divorce From Reality |
| 1-1-2021 |
The Atlantic |
Trump Is Banned. Who Is Next? |
| 2-6-2021 |
The Guardian |
Forget Zuckerberg and Cook’s hypocrisy – it’s their companies that are the real problem |
| 11-8-2020 |
The Hill |
QAnon proves internet companies aren’t up to the task of defending democracy |
| 1-29-2021 |
The Hill |
Facebook developing tool that lets advertisers avoid certain topics |
| 11-24-20 |
The Independent |
TWITTER BROADENS MISINFORMATION LABELS TO SHOW WARNINGS WHEN USERS LIKE TWEETS |
| 8-25-2020 |
The Markup |
Does Facebook Still Sell DiscriminatoryAds? |
| 1-14-2021 |
The Markup |
Biden, Trump Voters Shown Radically Different Riot Coverage on Facebook |
| 1-19-2021 |
The Markup |
Facebook Said It Would Stop Pushing Users to Join Partisan Political Groups. It Didn’t. |
| 2-11-2021 |
The Markup |
Google Has Been Allowing Advertisers to Exclude Nonbinary People from Seeing Job Ads |
| 1-5-2021 |
The New Republic |
Making Sense of the Facebook Menace |
| 11-7-2017 |
The Verge |
Here’s Why Twitter Is Blocking ‘Bisexual’ From Its Search Results |
| 6-4-18 |
The Verge |
YouTube is still restricting and demonetizing LGBT videos — and adding anti-LGBT ads to some
|
| 11-27-2018 |
The Verge |
Twitter has banned misgendering or ‘deadnaming’ transgender people |
| 2-27-2019 |
The Verge |
AI won’t relieve the misery of Facebook’s human moderators |
| 6-7-2019 |
The Verge |
GOOGLE’S LGBTQ EMPLOYEES ARE FURIOUS ABOUT YOUTUBE’S POLICY DISASTERS |
| 6-3-2020 |
The Verge |
YouTube fights back against bias lawsuit from LGBTQ creators |
| 6-10-20 |
The Verge |
Twitter would like you to actually read stories before you retweet them |
| 9-25-20 |
The Verge |
Twitter is bringing its ‘read before you retweet’ prompt to all users |
| 11-13-2020 |
The Verge |
Facebook is now using AI to sort content for quicker moderation |
| 11-19-2020 |
The Verge |
Facebook says AI has fueled a hate speech crackdown |
| 11-21-2020 |
The Verge |
YouTube brings back more human moderators after AI systems over-censor |
| 12-3-20 |
The Verge |
YouTube will ask commenters to rethink posting if their message seems offensive |
| 12-8-20 |
The Verge |
Christchurch shooter was radicalized on YouTube, New Zealand report says |
| 12-29-2020 |
The Verge |
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SECTION 230 |
| 3-31-2021 |
The Verge |
Facebook is making it easier to turn off algorithmic ranking in your News Feed |
| 1-8-2021 |
Them |
This Lawsuit Alleging YouTube Discriminates Against LGBTQ+ Users Was Just Tossed Out |
| 3-11-2021 |
Them |
TikTok, Reddit Ban Transphobic “Super Straight” Posts Linked to Neo-Nazi Groups |
| 9-16-2021 |
Them |
Facebook Added a Fact Check to Transphobic Ads about Sports Participation and Trans Youth |
|
Transgender Map |
Transgender slang, slurs, and controversial words |
|
Trust & Safety Foundation |
Resource Library: Trust & Safety Foundation |
|
Trust & Safety Foundation |
Case Studies: Trust & Safety Foundation |
| 7-30-2020 |
USA Today |
Fact check: LGBTQ community rejects false association with pedophiles |
| 12-15-2020 |
USA Today |
Google think tank’s report on white supremacy says little about YouTube’s role in driving people to extremism |
| 1-28-2021 |
Vanity Fair |
CAN MARK ZUCKERBERG BE TRUSTED TO TAKE POLITICS OUT OF FACEBOOK? |
| 7-1-2018 |
Verge |
YouTube apologizes to LGBTQ creators over issues with its ad and monetization policies |
| 5-26-2020 |
Wall Street Journal |
Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive |
| 8-14-2019 |
Washington Post |
YouTube discriminates against LGBT content by unfairly culling it, suit alleges |
| 12-9-2019 |
Washington Post |
Facebook ads push misinformation about HIV prevention drugs, LGBT activists say, ‘harming public health’ |
| 12-30-2019 |
Washington Post |
Facebook disables some misleading ads on HIV prevention drugs, responding to growing outcry, |
| 12-3-20 |
Washington Post |
Facebook to start policing anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White comments, documents show |
| 2-2-2021 |
Wikimedia |
Wikipedia Embraces First-of-Its Kind Universal Code of Conduct, Conceived For The New Internet Era |
| 8-2015 |
Wired |
Reddit Will Now Quarantine Offensive Content |
| 2-12-2019 |
Wired |
The Real Reason Tech Struggles With Algorithmic Bias |
| 7-2020 |
Wired |
You Purged Racists From Your Website? Great, Now Get to Work |
| 7-28-20 |
Wired |
Stop Saying Facebook Is ‘Too Big to Moderate’ |
| 9-24-20 |
Wired |
We Need to Talk About Talking About QAnon |
| 10-30-2020 |
Wired |
It’s Hard to Escape Facebook’s Vortex of Polarization |
| 1-7-2021 |
Wired |
Platforms Must Pay for Their Role in the Insurrection |
| 1-31-2021 |
Wired |
Banning White Supremacy Isn’t Censorship, It’s Accountability |
| 3-17-2021 |
WSJ |
Facebook Unveils New Penalties on Its Groups in Wake of Capitol Riot |
| 3-28-2021 |
Zack Whittaker Tweet |
Facebook’s latest survey asks users to grade the statements, “Facebook is good for the world”, “Facebook cares about its users”, and “How trustworthy is Facebook overall?” |
| TIMELESS |
zeynep tufekci |
Facebook: The Privatization of our Privates and Life in the Company Town |
