Expanding the debate about content moderation: Scholarly research agendas for the coming policy debates
By Tarleton Gillespie, Patricia Aufderheide, Elinor Carmi, Ysabel Gerrard, Robert Gorwa, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Sarah T. Roberts, Aram Sinnreich, Sarah Myers West. 2020
121 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Content moderation has exploded as a policy, advocacy, and public concern. But these debates still tend to be driven by high-profile incidents and to focus on the largest, US based platforms. In order to contribute to informed policymaking, scholarship in this area needs to recognise that moderation is an expansive socio-technical phenomenon, which functions in many contexts and takes many forms. Expanding the discussion also changes how we assess the array of proposed policy solutions meant to improve content moderation. Here, nine content moderation scholars working in critical internet studies propose how to expand research on content moderation, with implications for policy.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Communication, AI Ethics, Fairness & Society
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In Artificial Intelligence
- Yejin Choi
- Noah A. Smith
- Maarten Sap
- Swabha Swayamdipta
- Yulia Tsvetkov
- Mohit Bansal
- Xuhui Zhou
- Luke S. Zettlemoyer
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Citations in the corpus
- ToxiGen: A Large-Scale Machine-Generated Dataset for Adversarial and Implicit Hate Speech Detection (2022, background): “Carefully crafted policy and regulation can play an important role in providing oversight into the development and deployment of content moderation systems and toxicity detection algorithms in practice (Benesch, 2020; Gillespie et al., 2020).”
- Annotators with Attitudes: How Annotator Beliefs And Identities Bias Toxic Language Detection (2021, background): “Finally, given the increasingly essential role of online platforms in people’s daily lives (Rahman, 2017), we echo calls for policy regulating online spaces and toxicity detection algorithms (Jiang, 2020; Benesch, 2020; McGuffie and Newhouse, 2020; Gillespie et al., 2020).”