{"id":14783,"date":"2019-04-04T19:30:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T19:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/?p=14783"},"modified":"2024-12-11T00:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T00:55:00","slug":"stopping-hate-from-going-viral-content-moderation-in-the-wake-of-the-new-zealand-mosque-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/2019\/04\/04\/stopping-hate-from-going-viral-content-moderation-in-the-wake-of-the-new-zealand-mosque-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping Hate From Going Viral: Content Moderation in the Wake of the New Zealand Mosque Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are social media companies responsible for what is published on their platform? In the wake of the New Zealand mosque shooting in Christchurch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/science\/mosque-shooting-social-media-1.5058496\">questions<\/a> about social media firms&#8217; responsibilities are coming to the fore once again. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media firms are already using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2017\/06\/22\/533855547\/how-facebook-uses-technology-to-block-terrorist-related-content\">technologies<\/a>, originally designed to remove copyrighted materials, to also take down child pornography and ISIS-related propaganda. Should these firms now be required to remove all extremist and violent content proactively? Should they be allowed to continue to self-regulate? <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a recent appearance on TVO\u2019s The Agenda, Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gruzd\">@gruzd<\/a>), Director of Research at the Toronto Metropolitan University Social Media Lab at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torontomu.ca\/tedrogersschool\/\">Ted Rogers School of Management<\/a> joins The Adenda\u2019s host Steve Paikin (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@spaikin\">@spaikin<\/a>) and co-panelists Dr. Sarah T. Roberts (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@ubiquity75\">@ubiquity75<\/a>) from UCLA and Stephanie MacLellan (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@smaclellan\">@smaclellan<\/a>) from Centre for International Governance Innovation to discuss some of the many thorny issues around content moderation online. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can watch an encore presentation of their discussion on this very timely topic in the video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-tvo-org\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvo.org\/video\/social-media-and-the-problem-of-hateful-content\">Social Media and the Problem of Hateful Content<\/a><\/h4><p>The Agenda discusses if and how social media companies should govern content that exhibits hate.<\/p><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are social media companies responsible for what is published on their platform? In the wake of the New Zealand mosque shooting in Christchurch, questions about social media firms&#8217; responsibilities are coming to the fore once again. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media firms are already using technologies, originally designed to remove copyrighted materials, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[491,490,492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-post","category-online-communities","category-recap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14783"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21284,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14783\/revisions\/21284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}