Tag: Sarah T. Roberts

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Caitlin Cory
Date
January 14, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Social Media

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Facebook, Sarah T. Roberts, social media, TikTok}

Will AI Take Over Content Moderation?

_{While content moderators report psychological trauma, experts weigh in on whether artificial intelligence could remove humans from the equation} _{Caitlin Cory
January 14, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Social Media}

How do Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, YouTube, and other platforms keep up with the millions upon millions of posts, comments, videos, and photos posted to their sites on a daily basis? It takes a partnership between artificial intelligence and human content moderators. In recent years, however, content moderators have begun to reveal that their work is often traumatizing. Moderators for Facebook and TikTok have gone so far as to sue for the psychological harm they have experienced at their workplaces, regularly reviewing images and videos that you and I never have to see depicting rape, murder, child trafficking, and other violent and graphic content. Subjecting workers to violent and graphic imagery is an unsustainable way of keeping the internet free of such Read More ›

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Caitlin Cory
Date
March 21, 2021

Categorized
Censorship, Media

Tagged
David Randall, Disinformation, extremism, First Amendment, Free speech, journalism, misinformation, Regulation, Sarah T. Roberts, Substack}

Columbia Professor Wants Government to Regulate News Media

_{The journalism professor argued before a government regulatory committee that "an open market without regulation will always favor bad actors over good"} _{Caitlin Cory
March 21, 2021

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Censorship, Media}

During a subcommittee hearing on misinformation, disinformation, and extremism in journalism, a Columbia University professor advocated for the regulation of news media to create “a more vibrant, truthful news environment.” Emily Bell (pictured) is a professor of journalism at Columbia University, and founding director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Prior to her appointment at Columbia, she was an award-winning writer and editor at Guardian News and Media in London. She offered her comments at a February 24 hearing titled, “Fanning the Flames: Disinformation and Extremism in the Media”, hosted by the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology of the House’s Committee on Energy and Commerce. Bell testified as a witness. She sees a “policy role” for government to play in Read More ›