Content moderation

Online communities

• Moderator engagement and community development in the age of algorithms
• I’m going to share some of my favorite papers about the experiences of community content moderators

Reddit

• Moderation in Reddit

Twitter

• Moderation in Twitter - Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk sparked some good articles about how content moderation works in the way it does in most places.

Mastodon

• Moderation in Mastodon

Twitch

• Nakandala2017gendered
• Seering2023who

Research

People

• Joseph Seering

Studies

• Dwork et al., Content Moderation and the Formation of Online Communities: A Theoretical Framework

Impact

Muller2022effects shows that the de-platforming of Donald Trump from Twitter reduced the toxicity of tweets sent by Trump followers by 25%.