Bluesky, the startup aiming to build a decentralized social network to take on Twitter/X, says it has begun deploying new safety tooling to help moderate content on the network through automation.

Recently I have had a number of conversations regarding the role of pre-moderation of internal social networks. Just by way of explanation, pre-moderation would be the approval of all content (posts ...

In an effort to help its own moderators out, Discord has developed a new automated content moderation tool. Content moderation can be an exhausting, burnout-inducing task that requires community ...

Twitch introduced a new way for streamers to fight accounts that evade channel-level bans Tuesday. The automated tool is called "Suspicious User Detection" and can spot users trying to get around bans ...

Bluesky, the open-source Twitter alternative, is about to start testing out one of its more ambitious ideas: allowing its users to run their own moderation services. The change will allow Bluesky ...

Social media promised to connect the world more than ever before. But in the meantime, it’s turned into a gargantuan double ...

The company is launching AutoMod, an autonomous keyword filter it says will moderators to detect, block, or receive alerts of harmful messages in a server. Reading time 2 minutes Discord is ramping up ...

An update to Google+ for Android will now preload webpages when on WiFi, adds notification filtering, Community moderation tools, and more in addition to other bug fixes. Another benefit of ...

Twitter Inc., the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used for content moderation and other policy enforcement, curbing the ...

Bluesky is looking to make its moderation and reporting systems more transparent as part of its efforts to forge a healthier social media ecosystem than some of the alternatives out there. The ...

Three-quarters of teens and pre-teens and 76% of adults experience harassment in online games, while antisemitism is on a concerning rise. Today’s gaming audiences are unsurprisingly demanding more: ...