With a few minutes of searching, anyone can find videos online of chatty birds: macaws talk to their keepers, cockatoos sing to the camera, corvids mimic the jarring sounds of construction sites.

A new briefing paper produced by the London Social Media Observatory (LSMO) at Royal Holloway and Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) details emerging risks to democratic participation on ...

My Kansas Day reflections often come back to one main idea: Moderation. Not much in vogue these days, but I still believe in my core it’s a hallmark of our state. Maybe that’s why Kansas is not much ...

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence ...

After watching our two political parties struggle to reopen the government, it is time to remind ourselves of the value of compromise. We all know that moderation is important in our personal lives.

Meta Platforms Inc.’s messaging service WhatsApp will face stricter rules under the European Union’s content moderation rulebook, as the bloc increases scrutiny of social media. The EU’s executive ...

Meta Platforms Inc. and ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok have breached European Union rules designed to tackle illegal or harmful online content, according to early findings from the bloc. The EU’s executive ...

New York is mandating that major social media apps disclose the volume of their hate speech and misinformation. On Thursday, Oct. 2, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the start of a ...

Economists have for years delivered epitaphs of the Great Moderation, the period from mid-1980s to 2007 when growth was slow and steady, inflation low, and interest rates trended down. Ben Bernanke, ...

Through the perspective of an unflappable social-media content moderator, Elaine Castillo’s new novel exposes the often invisible dirty work of the digital era. By Rhoda Feng Rhoda Feng is a freelance ...

In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at Elaine Castillo's Moderation, which follows the vagaries of a social media content moderator’s work and love lives. In its review, PW says "It’s a ...