57 stories tagged content-moderation, newest first.
90 points by Tomte | 64 comments
An opinion piece in comic form on Xtra by webcomic duo Hazel and Bell about how social media algorithms and payment processor restrictions are hurting indie queer webcomics.
139 points by nidnogg | 57 comments
Al Jazeera news report that Meta employees acknowledged in internal messages that Lula's Instagram accounts were restricted during Brazil's election while Bolsonaro's were recommended.
418 points by robtherobber | 528 comments
Techdirt article by Mike Masnick arguing the brief suspension of the No Kings Instagram account shows why activists shouldn't rely on Meta's platforms.
392 points by DeepLogin | 200 comments
MeidasNews article reporting that Meta took down the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide protest day; the page shows an access-restricted bot block.
34 points by hn_acker | 33 comments
Techdirt article by Mike Masnick on how platform violent-content policies will clash with the Pentagon's plan to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan.
19 points by ascorbic | 7 comments
EmDash blog post explaining how its plugin registry uses Cloudflare's Clef multimodal decision model to screen listings for phishing, impersonation, and abuse.
44 points by theorchid | 31 comments
A blog post recounting an open-source developer's repeated Reddit account bans while trying to share a GitHub project, and the unwritten rules behind them.
66 points by Tomte | 40 comments
Anil Dash blog post arguing against the euphemism "unalive" and the platform-driven algospeak that self-censors language on social media.
34 points by timpera | 21 comments
The Verge quick post reporting that a Florida woman was arrested after Anthropic's Claude flagged her chat containing threats against the Lee County Sheriff's Office.
357 points by rbanffy | 250 comments
A Reddit r/worldnews thread on Meta blocking Brazilian President Lula's Facebook page and campaign ads two weeks before the election; the page loaded as a Reddit block screen.
43 points by hn_acker | 12 comments
Eric Goldman blog post analyzing Kansas v. Snap, where Snap argues it should be treated as a state actor, contrary to platforms' usual stance on content moderation.
543 points by pieterr | 319 comments
Reddit post in r/facebook claiming Meta took down a critical video about its Meta AI Glasses that was filmed at Meta; page blocked by Reddit network security.
21 points by theanonymousone | 6 comments
Windows Latest article reporting that Microsoft attempted to ban the derisive term "Microslop" in its Copilot Discord community and gave up six months later.
556 points by cromka | 281 comments
An Ask HN post complaining that Hacker News is dominated by AI news and proposing curation or tagging to surface other hacker-interest stories.
462 points by riadsila | 124 comments
Mistral AI blog post announcing Shieldstral, a 3B-parameter open-weights model for multimodal content moderation.
442 points by speckx | 491 comments
Eric Goldman blog post analyzing Amy v. Apple, where Apple avoided liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM, though the judge criticized it.
912 points by levkk | 391 comments
An Ask HN post proposing a non-penalizing flag on Hacker News to mark submitted articles as AI-generated so readers can skip them.
426 points by gorbachev | 315 comments
BBC News article on a row at Meta after contract workers who said they saw smart glasses footage of users having sex lost their jobs.
333 points by FiddlerClamp | 328 comments
TechCrunch article reporting Deezer's statement that 44% of songs uploaded daily to its streaming platform are AI-generated.
1106 points by robtherobber | 494 comments
Windows Latest article reporting Microsoft banned the word "Microslop" on its Copilot Discord server, then locked the server after user backlash.
436 points by c420 | 825 comments
Reuters exclusive reporting that the US government plans an online portal to help users bypass content bans in Europe and other regions.
536 points by vikaveri | 1015 comments
BBC News article reporting that Paris prosecutors raided the French offices of Elon Musk's X while the UK opened a new investigation into the Grok AI chatbot.
1304 points by kotaKat | 853 comments
CNN Business article reporting that TikTok users say they cannot upload anti-ICE videos, which the company attributes to technical issues.
819 points by WaitWaitWha | 352 comments
It's FOSS News article reporting that YouTube removed tutorials on bypassing Windows 11 requirements, citing a 'risk of physical harm' policy.
348 points by jjbinx007 | 318 comments
A Reddit r/DataHoarder thread about YouTube removing videos that show how to perform nonstandard Windows 11 installs; the page was blocked by Reddit's network policy.
348 points by aspenmayer | 211 comments
Fox Business news article reporting that Apple removed ICEBlock and other ICE-tracking apps from its App Store after Attorney General Bondi's DOJ demanded it.
491 points by croes | 479 comments
PC Gamer article on Mastercard denying blame for NSFW game removals while Valve says payment processors cited a Mastercard brand-damage rule.
878 points by hallak | 224 comments
Drawafish.com is a web toy where users draw a right-facing fish on a canvas and release it to swim in a shared tank with others' drawings.
546 points by 6d6b73 | 720 comments
Wired article on Steam and Itch.io removing adult games and critics' concerns that the moves amount to a slippery slope of censorship.
337 points by bookofjoe | 255 comments
Ask HN discussion thread proposing splitting Hacker News into AI/LLM content and everything else due to perceived AI topic dominance.
1473 points by DavideNL | 636 comments
Jeff Geerling blog post about receiving a second YouTube community guidelines strike for a video demonstrating LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5 for 4K playback.
964 points by jbegley | 625 comments
Drop Site News investigative article reporting leaked data showing an Israeli government campaign of takedown requests to remove pro-Palestine posts on Facebook and Instagram.
746 points by rogerthis | 335 comments
DistroWatch Weekly issue of January 27, 2025, whose site news section reports on Facebook blocking or banning posts that discuss Linux.
745 points by OsrsNeedsf2P | 542 comments
Substack post by Evan Carroll about Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange renaming or erasing Luigi Mangione's account, framed as tech serving the ruling class.
762 points by impish9208 | 1199 comments
Meta newsroom post by Joel Kaplan announcing the end of its third-party fact-checking program in favor of a Community Notes model.
753 points by talonx | 363 comments
A post on X by 3Blue1Brown about his YouTube video on Bitcoin being taken down as a copyright violation.
340 points by uxhacker | 385 comments
Guardian report that more than 140 former Facebook content moderators in Kenya were diagnosed with severe PTSD, part of a lawsuit against Meta and Samasource Kenya.
735 points by buro9 | 502 comments
Forum post announcing that LFGSS and the Microcosm forum platform will shut down on 16 March 2025 because of liability under the UK Online Safety Act.
394 points by eatonphil | 435 comments
Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter post on the Third Circuit ruling that TikTok's algorithmic recommendations aren't shielded by Section 230 and it must stand trial.
567 points by southernplaces7 | 1021 comments
Politico news article on Mark Zuckerberg saying he regrets Meta yielding to White House pressure over content moderation; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
582 points by toss1 | 669 comments
News article on decripto.org reporting the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on charges including terrorism, fraud and child pornography for not cooperating with authorities.
879 points by NoxiousPluK | 712 comments
Guardian news article reporting that Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov was arrested at a French airport on an arrest warrant after arriving on his private jet.
612 points by Robin89 | 431 comments
GitHub repository that tracks and lists stories removed from the Hacker News front page, updated in real time by a bot to study moderation.
467 points by cratermoon | 426 comments
Guardian article on a Human Rights Watch report claiming Meta's Facebook and Instagram systematically censor pro-Palestinian content worldwide.
533 points by Jakob-G | 327 comments
A Reddit post in r/youtube complaining that YouTube refuses to remove scam ads featuring a deepfake Elon Musk promoting an AI trading bot.
2387 points by liamcottle | 954 comments
Omegle's homepage replaced by founder Leif K-Brooks' farewell letter announcing the anonymous video chat site's shutdown after 14 years.
455 points by bawolff | 485 comments
Open-access American Political Science Review article examining how rule ambiguity and institutional clashes shaped Wikipedia's governance and community.
602 points by reuven | 392 comments
Blog post by Python and Pandas instructor Reuven Lerner describing how Meta banned him for life from advertising, apparently over ads for his Python courses.
431 points by zdw | 122 comments
Herman's blog post describing his ongoing fight against human spam farms abusing the free Bear blogging platform for SEO backlinks.
335 points by mhb | 642 comments
New York Times article on YouTube suspending Russell Brand's ability to earn ad revenue on the platform; the page loaded as a captcha check.
1322 points by mantiq | 970 comments
EFF Deeplinks post from August 2023 arguing that internet service providers should not police or block online speech, even when it is awful.
340 points by fbrusch | 190 comments
Vitalik Buterin's blog post analyzing Twitter/X's Community Notes feature, its algorithm, and its role in content moderation.
360 points by cm_silva | 625 comments
Ars Technica article on a federal judge's preliminary injunction finding the White House pressured social networks to suppress speech, in a suit by Missouri and Louisiana.
372 points by lewisflude | 253 comments
The Verge article publishing Reddit's message threatening moderators who closed subreddits in the API protest blackout, and seeking replacement mods.
640 points by notRobot | 312 comments
A r/antiwork Reddit thread where a user asks why their post about JPMorgan Chase employee tracking was removed from Reddit as spam.
399 points by Cyclical | 398 comments
Imgur's Community Rules page outlining content guidelines for the image-sharing platform, updated to ban NSFW content.
576 points by rurban | 307 comments
Slashdot story reporting that Valve restricted the Steam accounts of about 2,500 users who marked a negative game review as useful.