How does the professionalization of Trust & Safety shape global content moderation practices? We compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from TSPA to identify policy priorities and exclusions, available #openaccess in New Media & Society

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@reynoldscj @pgmt_lab Thanks also to the following podcasts for providing one-sided but important conversations that inspired our work: Moderated Content, The Sunday Show, Rational Security, Ctrl-Alt-Speech, Views on First & Tech Policy Podcast.🙏.

Many thanks to co-author dream team @reynoldscj Rebecca Scharlach, Dana Theiler, Noa Niv, Omer Rothenstein, Isabell Knief + Yehonatan Kuperberg. This was a collaboration between @pgmt_lab 😍 and the Participatory Platform Governance lab.

We conclude with a call for academics and practitioners to broaden the conversation around content moderation, especially regarding adult content and non-Western platforms, and we offer a replicable method for comparative policy research.

For example, the identity verification and speech restrictions on negative topics of webcamming platforms are closer to policies of Chinese livestreaming platforms than Western ones, leading us to discuss a broader tradeoff between sexual expression and broadcaster speech.

Both adult webcamming platforms and the Korean platform in our study (AfreecaTV, now SOOP) had larger shares of community-specific rules, revealing industry-sector and geographic exclusions within industry standards that sometimes intersect in interesting ways.

The commonalities between mainstream platforms (e.g., YouTube, Twitch) and alternative platforms (e.g., Rumble, DLive) are particularly surprising given the latter rhetorically distances themselves from the “censorship” of Trust and Safety teams and findings from earlier research.

We find significant commonalities in the policy priorities of 12 diverse livestreaming and adult webcamming platforms, supporting a consensus around industry standards within Trust & Safety, even among alternative and adult platforms.

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In Boston (for the first time) to present some new research with Nik John and @OmerRothenstein on Bluesky, #contentmoderation, and the cultural take up of community tools for curation and moderation (also for the first time) ✨

What a great day to announce a new publication 😅 but also, I really love this article and am happy that it’s out in the world. Check it out if you’re interested in creators, content moderation, algorithmic bias, and/or platformed racism.

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I'm very much looking forward to continuing my (surprisingly international) academic adventures, but it will be bittersweet to leave my top-tier colleagues and friends at Hebrew University.

I'll be launching a project on new media monetization and looking to recruit some collaborators, so keep an eye out 👀.

Some ✨ big news ✨ : this fall, I'll be moving to Denmark and starting as an Assistant Professor of Platform Studies in the Department of Media and Journalism Studies at Aarhus University.

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