Americans Say They Want One Thing, Then Vote a Different Way. Here’s Why.

Americans keep hoping next year will be better for their country, too. In polls that I see every day for my work, voters ...
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 ...
techxplore

Hard labor conditions of online moderators directly affect how well the internet is policed—new study

Big tech platforms often present content moderation as a seamless, tech‑driven system. But human labor, often outsourced to countries such as India and the Philippines, plays a pivotal role in making ...
interaksyon.philstar

Content moderators for Big Tech unite to tackle mental trauma

Moderators unite to tackle mental trauma Union pushes to hold Big Tech to account Rise in violent content while jobs cut BRUSSELS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — Content moderators from the Philippines ...
The Texas Tribune

Meta to move content moderators to Texas as part of plan to end fact-checking program

The Brief keeps Texas voters and political observers up to speed on the most essential coverage of their elected officials, the policies that shape their daily lives and the future of our great state.
Detroit Free Press

Bias by moderators in online chatrooms can be identified and fixed, new research finds

If you hoped to escape a deluge of partisan political promotion during the last days of this election season, your social media feeds probably won't provide much solace. A Wall Street Journal report ...
The Conversation

Moderators protect us from the worst of the internet. That comes at huge personal cost

Alexandra Wake is a member of Dart Asia Pacific, having previously served as a director of its Board. She is currently a joint recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, Australian ...
Fox News

JD Vance reminds CBS moderators of debate rules after they try to fact-check him

Sen. JD Vance pushed back on the CBS News moderators who attempted to fact-check him in a contentious moment during the vice presidential debate on Tuesday. Despite CBS announcing that it would not ...
Yahoo

Who are the moderators for Tuesday’s vice presidential debate?

Norah O'Donnell (left) and Margaret Brennan of CBS News. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Michele Crowe/CBS, Mary F. Calvert/CBS) CBS News will host Tuesday’s vice presidential debate, marking ...
Reason

ABC's Moderators Failed to Fact-Check Kamala Harris

This week's first and possibly only debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump was not nearly as consequential as the June debate, which ended President Joe Biden's ...
Des Moines Register

Debate moderators corrected Trump while letting Harris lie about him

A loss of one viewer of an ABC newscast will mean nothing to ABC News. Because of the way David Muir and Linsey Davis moderated the Sept. 10 president debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, I ...
The Washington Post

Trump blames ABC’s moderators for his debate dud. Voters disagree.

ABC “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir addresses the audience with colleague Linsey Davis in 2020 in Manchester, N.H. (Elise Amendola/AP) Analysis by Aaron Blake Donald Trump and his allies have ...