Do not recommend? Reduction as a form of content moderation

T Gillespie - Social Media+ Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Public debate about content moderation has overwhelmingly focused on removal: social
media platforms deleting content and suspending users, or opting not to do so. However …

Treating social media platforms like common carriers?

E Volokh - J. Free Speech L., 2021 - HeinOnline
Say that the US Postal Service refused to allow the mailing of KKK, Antifa, or anti-vax
publications. 1 That would be unconstitutional, 2 however much we might appreciate the …

[HTML][HTML] An end to shadow banning? Transparency rights in the Digital Services Act between content moderation and curation

P Leerssen - Computer Law & Security Review, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper offers a legal perspective on the phenomenon of shadow banning: content
moderation sanctions which are undetectable to those affected. Drawing on recent social …

Building human values into recommender systems: An interdisciplinary synthesis

J Stray, A Halevy, P Assar, D Hadfield-Menell… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems are the algorithms which select, filter, and personalize content
across many of the world's largest platforms and apps. As such, their positive and negative …

The contradictions of platform regulation

MA Lemley - J. Free Speech L., 2021 - HeinOnline
Everyone wants to regulate the big tech companies-Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.
1 Companies that were darlings of the media and government a decade ago are now under …

Acceptable Use Policies for Foundation Models

K Klyman - Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
As foundation models have accumulated hundreds of millions of users, developers have
begun to take steps to prevent harmful types of uses. One salient intervention that foundation …

Moderating borderline content while respecting fundamental values

S Macdonald, K Vaughan - Policy & Internet, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As efforts to identify and remove online terrorist and violent extremist content have
intensified, concern has also grown about so‐called lawful but awful content. Various …

Amplified Speech

EL Miller - Cardozo L. Rev., 2021 - HeinOnline
A man walks into a courthouse wearing a jacket embroidered with the words" F*** Big Oil," in
order to protest a federal permit recently granted to a multinational corporation for building …

The amplification paradox in recommender systems

MH Ribeiro, V Veselovsky, R West - Proceedings of the International …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Automated audits of recommender systems found that blindly following recommendations
leads users to increasingly partisan, conspiratorial, or false content. At the same time …

Lecture I: Governing the algorithmic city

S Lazar - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.20720, 2024 - arxiv.org
A century ago, John Dewey observed that'[s] team and electricity have done more to alter the
conditions under which men associate together than all the agencies which affected human …