How social media companies are fighting to remove graphic content after TikTok's viral suicide video

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More moderators, or better artificial intelligence, are only partial solutions for how to fight graphic content

The company took down down more videos in the second quarter of 2020 than ever before, trading a “lower level of accuracy” for the knowledge that it was “removing as many pieces of violative content as possible".that users will try and subvert machine-based moderation, that these systems cannot understand context as well as humans, and they can undermine freedom of expression., as the company did not distinguish between the famous war photograph and images of child abuse.

 

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