Tumblr's Porn Ban Is Off to a Predictably Stupid Start
Yesterday Tumblr committed to making its social network, which is full of boobs, dongs, and teens openly fantasizing…
Giphy Is Back on Instagram and Snapchat After Claiming to Have Solved Its Racist Sticker Problem
Gif-sharing service Giphy is back on Snapchat after an incident last month involving an extremely goddamn racist gif…
YouTube: What If We Just Inserted a Link to Wikipedia Under Some of the Conspiracy Videos
On Tuesday at tech festival SXSW, streaming site and Google subsidiary YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki proposed one…
YouTube's New Moderation Team Stumbles Out the Gate
Following the mass school shooting which killed 17 people and wounded over a dozen others in Parkland, Florida this…
Reddit Bans AI-Powered Fake Porn
Following Twitter, Discord, Imgur, and Pornhub, Reddit has taken action to ban the posting of AI-generated fake…
Let's Make Tech CEOs Moderate Their Own Hellish Websites
In what’s becoming a depressing genre, The Wall Street Journal published a story today profiling the very human…
Twitter's Promised Crackdown on Violent Hate Speech Will Supposedly Begin on Monday
Earlier this year, Twitter announced that it would finally be changing its moderation policies in what was popularly…
YouTube Is Probably, Maybe Hiring Some People to Make It Less Welcoming to Child Predators
As you may have heard, YouTube is growing its content moderation team to 10,000 staffers. Sounds like progress! Of…
YouTube Says It Will Crack Down on All Those Creepy Videos Targeted at or Featuring Kids
Google, along with fellow tech giants like Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter has drawn increasing scrutiny this year over…
Don't Let YouTube Babysit Your Children
Maybe it’s happened to you. You’re cruising around YouTube and then boom: a video of Spiderman hanging out with girls…
Twitter Says It Will Finally Do Something About Those Hordes of Nazis
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted on Friday that the company’s minimalist approach to moderation was not working, saying…
Study Finds Banning Reddit's Bigoted Jerkwards Worked
In recent years, Reddit has banned a bevy of far-right troll havens, including its board for the white supremacist…
Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides
Facebook has a problem. Not the one where they admitted to being a megaphone for propaganda and psy-ops. Or the one…
How a Video Game Chat Client Became the Web’s New Cesspool of Abuse
Over 25 million users have flocked to Discord, a text and voice platform for gamers, since its launch in May of 2015.…
Why Trolls Won in 2016
A decade is all it took, more or less, for the internet to become unmanageable.
Reddit Needs a Definition for Violence
Reddit’s new chief alien, Steve Huffman, announced a vaguely worded set of new content guidelines yesterday afternoon.…
The Horrifying Job of Facebook Content Moderators
Isn't Facebook great? (It's not.) But isn't it nice and clean and kid friendly? This is true for a very specific…