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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Content Moderation"”.
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Content-Moderation for End-to-End-Encrypted Platforms
… (CSAM) in end-to-end encrypted content uploaded to iCloud. This mechanism leveraged a private set intersection (PSI) protocol to recover a decryption key for encrypted data that matched against a blocklist of hashes curated by Apple. However, the proposal faced widespread …
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Making Sense of Digital Content Moderation from the Margins
This dissertation, Making Sense of Digital Content Moderation from the Margins, examines how content creators who are marginalized by race, sexuality, gender, ethnicity, and disability understand their experiences of content moderation on the social media platform TikTok. Using critical interface …
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Behind the screen: the hidden digital labor of commercial content moderation
Commercial content moderation (CCM) is the practice of screening of user-generated content (UGC) posted to Internet sites, social media platforms and other online outlets that encourage and rely upon such material to generate visits to and participation from users. Despite being essential to the …
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Towards the downstream effects of insufficient content moderation on the internet
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Is AI Good for All? Ethical Concerns for the Training and Implementation of AI-Driven Decision-Making Systems
… To answer the second question, we explore the content moderation process and study how decisions are made about what content is allowed online. Generative AI and social media platforms rely on human workers for content moderation, the process through which toxic content is reviewed, labeled, …
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THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN ONLINE HATE SPEECH AND INTERMEDIARY LIABILITY IN EU AND UK LAW
… frameworks and their approaches to objectionable content. Emphasis is placed on evaluating the compatibility of these legal provisions with essential human rights, notably the right to freedom of expression. The study highlights the Digital Services Act (DSA) as a recent European legislative …
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Summary of Essays on the Constitutional Application of the 1996 CDA Section 230 and Separation of Powers
… for large social media platforms that bans all content moderation, uses federal preemption to occupy the regulatory field, levels the competitive playing field for social media, and otherwise leaves the existing Section 230 scheme with “light touch” regulation intact for all other interactive …
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“We need to save civilization first”: examining the role of cyberlibertarian design in the disinformation culture of Reddit’s /r/The_Donald
… platforms employing once-experimental models of content moderation that assume a cyberlibertarian stance towards free speech. Seeking to understand the impact of this design politic upon our media landscape, this dissertation explores Reddit’s alt-right subreddit /r/The_Donald, utilizing a …
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Collaborative Community based Self-Expanding (CCSE) E-Learning Model
… peer interaction, community engagement, robust content moderation, and design elements. Participants in these studies, included learners, academics, and community ambassadors. The outcomes of the studies led to revisions of the CCSE Model, culminating in the final version. <br/><br/>Overall, the …
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Configuration and control in social media systems
… A second mechanism for control, appeals of content moderation decisions, does not improve user perceptions of the fairness, trustworthiness or accountability of the system, despite user calls for human review of automated decisions. These existing mechanisms appear to fall short of users’ …
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Linguistically Differentiating Acts and Recalls of Racial Microaggressions on Social Media
… for current challenges in social media content moderation systems.
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Towards Bridging and Governing Decentralized Communities
… a diverse range of speech, community norms, and moderation approaches. By analyzing over 60K community rules, I propose an empirically grounded norms schema and reveal how the purpose statement correlates with pro-social behavior reflected in community-centered discourse. Building on these …
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SYMBIOSIS, COGNITION, EMPATHY: SHAPING BEHAVIOR AND ENHANCING AI IN DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS
… studies addressing platform resilience, content engagement, and AI data integrity, it applies principles of ecological interdependence (symbiosis), analyzes cognitive responses to online discourse, and investigates empathy's role in data quality.The first study investigates Korea's gaming …
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ONLYFANS AND THE PLATFORMIZATION OF SEX WORK
… entertainment platforms and social media. Adult content creation on OnlyFans is identified as an emerging form of digital labor at the intersection of sex work, amateur pornography, and social media influencing. This labor is characterized by the monetization of pre-existing popularity, where …
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Investigating the Effects of Nudges for Facilitating the Use of Trigger Warnings and Content Warnings
… memories in viewers when posters post sensitive content. Strict content moderation and blocking/reporting features do not work when triggers are nuanced and the posts may not violate site guidelines. Viewer-side interventions exist to help filter and hide certain content but these put all the …
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A mixed-method approach to analyze the robustness of natural language processing classifiers
… with applications such as spam, phishing and content moderation. Malicious actors can craft manipulated inputs to fool NLP classifiers into making incorrect predictions. A large challenge with evaluating these adversarial attacks is the trade-o_ between attack efficiency and text quality. …
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Social Media Use Among Women Who Create Adult Online Content: Community Building and Social Media Affordances
… research investigates how women-identified adult content creators use social media platforms to form peer communities. Adult content creators are people who use the Internet to sell erotic materials (photos, videos, or text) that involve their images or performances. Adult content creators, …
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Robust Computer Vision beyond Lₚ Adversaries
… as self-driving cars, facial recognition, and content moderation, require robustness against diverse perturbations to ensure reliability and safety. Examples of such perturbations include variations in lighting conditions, occlusions, or changes in object orientations and backgrounds, all of …
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NLP measures for cyber environment safety: Detection, mitigation and intervention
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Aligning Models for Human-Centric Decision Systems
… improve their ability to detect violations in a content moderation setting, proposing a larger reasoning model use them as tools to better assist a human moderator. Third, improving the trustworthiness and alignment of language models in particular, as powerful generative models that can form the …
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