What just happened? It's a sad case of another day, another company laying off hundreds of people as their jobs become automated by AI. This time, the firm in question is TikTok, which is replacing ...

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TikTok plans to lay off hundreds of workers in the U.K., as the video platform turns to artificial intelligence to automate content moderation. Social-media companies built teams dedicated to policing ...

Kevin decided on a career in content moderation after his YouTube recommendations took a bewildering swerve. In 2021, videos appeared on his feed depicting violent attacks by Boko Haram, a Nigerian ...

"Sometimes the only way to stop a bad thing is with another bad thing." Brainstorm Media has unveiled the official trailer for an indie film titled American Sweatshop, a modern thriller about social ...

A former content moderator for the porn site Chaturbate has sued the platform and its affiliates, claiming that he was psychologically harmed by his ongoing exposure to the sexual material on the site ...

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Perhaps the biggest user privacy issue of our time has to do, of course, with AI. AI models have an insatiable appetite for data, as the only way to improve them is to feed them new, high-quality ...

Anyone who spends time on social media knows that it’s hard to avoid misinformation, abusive language and offensive content. Platforms like Facebook and YouTube have content moderation systems ...

Elon Musk’s X Corp sued New York on Tuesday, challenging the constitutionality of a state law requiring social media companies to disclose how they monitor hate speech, extremism, disinformation, ...

Last year, X won its fight to block a California law requiring social media companies to report on efforts to remove hate speech and other kinds of content the state deemed harmful. Now, X has sued to ...

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