Social Media Moderation Cuts Fuel Extremism - Life After Hate
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Over the past two years, several major social media platforms like X, Meta, and others have undergone major layoffs and restructuring. A common theme has been dramatic cuts to their trust and safety, content moderation, and policy teams responsible for combating misinformation, hate speech, and extremist content on their platforms.
    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Yeah, took me a couple tries. I thought mods were stopping “fuel extremism,” so like maybe people were talking about intentionally wasting gas or something, and mods were telling users to cut it out.

      I got there, but it was a bit of word-salad at first.

    • thelittleblackbird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      7 days ago

      Most of those moderation just step in the moment the lie enters the chat.

      And no, you freedom of speech does not allow you to lie without facing the consecuences

    • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
      66·
      7 days ago

      Both sides, because both have extremist ideologies.

      Freedom of speech is a government thing, this article is about organisations. It doesn’t apply.

      • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
        111·
        7 days ago

        Nah, downvoted because it doesn’t spark healthy discussion.

        “What about freedom of speech?” isn’t a valid question because the article is about social media, not a government. There are no freedom of speech rights on social media platforms.

        • LordKitsuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          7 days ago

          You expect Americans to actually understand anything about their own bill of rights? Seems unreasonable given how uneducated they are