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X uses Community Notes as a moderation tool – to correct content. In future, comments will be written by AI.
Threads is making it easier for users to actually see and discover content from other platforms. Here’s how it works, and how to enable it.
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has spoken out about the significant moderation changes announced by Meta on Tuesday, which will see the social networking giant removing fact-checking across its apps in ...
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has spoken out about the significant moderation changes announced by Meta on Tuesday, which will see the social networking giant removing fact-checking across its apps in ...
The experimental BBC Mastodon server at https://social.bbc has now been running for six months and hosts accounts for R&D, Radio 4, and 5 Live.
These Mastodon servers can be run by individuals, groups or organizations that each have their own set of rules regarding how users can sign up, as well as their own moderation policies.
Mastodon has risen in popularity since Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. Last week, founder and CEO Eugen Rochko said the platform's monthly active user count was up to 2.1 million, which is "not ...
Twitter / X rival social media platform Mastodon is now being used by some users to trade child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), seemingly unnoticed and unpoliced, a new study by Stanford University ...
Researchers claim 112 matches of known CSAM content were found on Mastodon over a two-day period, raising concerns around content moderation.
This means Threads users will be able to follow, reply and repost content from Mastodon, and vice versa. This creates a unique problem for Meta, which can’t control the entire moderation flow ...
A new report suggests that the lax content moderation protections of Mastodon and other decentralized social media platforms have led to a proliferation of child sexual abuse material. Stanford ...
Stanford’s Mastodon server should only allow Stanford affiliates to create accounts, the same way that only Stanford affiliates can get @stanford.edu emails.