TikTok urged to clarify how it will moderate content amid proposed job cuts

In a letter to the MP, dated October 20 and published by the committee, TikTok’s Northern Europe public policy director Ali ...
JD Supra

New York Law Requires Social Media Companies to Report Content Moderation Policies

In October 2025, the New York Attorney General’s Office announced that, in accordance with the “Stop Hiding Hate” Act, social ...

The web is becoming a sprawling hive mind of AI agents, and Vercel wants to build a cloud to host them

Guillermo Rauch says Vercel's next bet is hosting the web's growing swarm of AI agents in an "AI cloud." ...
Wired

Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content-Moderation World

Minutes after conservative political activist Charlie Kirk was shot yesterday at a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University, jarring videos of the incident began circulating on apps like TikTok, ...
Digi Times

TikTok to replace hundreds of UK content moderators with AI automation

TikTok is planning cuts to its UK trust and safety team, replacing human content moderators with automated AI. Save my User ID and Password Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in information so ...
TechSpot

TikTok lays off hundreds of content moderators, replaces them with AI

What just happened? It's a sad case of another day, another company laying off hundreds of people as their jobs become automated by AI. This time, the firm in question is TikTok, which is replacing ...
PC Magazine

TikTok Lays Off Hundreds More Content Moderators in AI Push

The Wall Street Journal's sources said that 'hundreds' of its London team could be impacted. Based in London, Will is passionate about the intersection of tech and human lives, with bylines in BBC ...
Wall Street Journal

TikTok to Lay off Hundreds of U.K. Content Moderators in AI Push

TikTok plans to lay off hundreds of workers in the U.K., as the video platform turns to artificial intelligence to automate content moderation. Social-media companies built teams dedicated to policing ...
Bloomberg L.P.

AI Is Replacing Online Moderators, But It's Bad at the Job

Kevin decided on a career in content moderation after his YouTube recommendations took a bewildering swerve. In 2021, videos appeared on his feed depicting violent attacks by Boko Haram, a Nigerian ...
Nature

AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back

The preprint’s title — ‘Self-Experimental Report: Emergence of Generative AI Interfaces in Dream States’ — roused psychologist Olivia Kirtley’s suspicions. When she clicked, her wariness grew. The ...
The Verge

Pray for the content moderators.

In director Uta Briesewitz’s upcoming thriller American Sweatshop, a social media content moderator (Lili Reinhart) can’t move on from a gruesome murder she’s forced to watch as part of her job. The ...
FirstShowing.net

Trailer for 'American Sweatshop' Thriller About a Content Moderator

"Sometimes the only way to stop a bad thing is with another bad thing." Brainstorm Media has unveiled the official trailer for an indie film titled American Sweatshop, a modern thriller about social ...