Content Moderation Project
19 February 2024
This project seeks to increase transparency about the way large digital platforms operate and govern their platform, and how they influence their users. An emerging EU platform law imposes new obligations on large digital platforms such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and X. The Digital Services Act (DSA), which is part of this EU platform law, mandates that platforms demonstrate transparency in their content moderation policies and systems, as well as take measures to limit the spread of misinformation
The Content Moderation Project (CoMo project) aims to access the content moderation data of large digital platforms to analyze their content moderation policies and systems in the context of the DSA. The project started with an audit of X crowdsourced content moderation system (Community Notes) and revealed the strengths and weaknesses of X content moderation tool. The project’s objective is to develop methodologies for auditing digital platforms’ content moderation policies and systems, covering the entire process from data access to the presentation of audit results.
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