| 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?” |
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