From static classifiers to reasoning engines: OpenAI’s new model rethinks content moderation

“Traditional classifiers can have high performance, with low latency and operating cost," OpenAI said. "But gathering a ...

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 ...

How to balance speed and credibility in AI-assisted content creation

AI tools can accelerate content workflows – but without governance, accuracy, and human oversight, quality and trust quickly ...
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, ...
The Verge

The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up

Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard. Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard.
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 ...
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 ...
Awful Announcing

Rejoice! ESPN has eliminated its paywall on written content

As we and many other digital outlets are well aware, producing ad-supported written content is a tough business. At the same time, sending potential readers to a paywall that does not convert into a ...
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 ...