Everything in Moderation
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About the policies, products, platforms and people shaping content moderation, now and in the future.
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Your Week in Review just dropped:
🇩🇰 Denmark scraps its "chat control" plans — for now
🇦🇺 Oz adds platforms to social media ban
🌍 New Integrity Institute CEO
...and more!
Plus posts of note from @alixdunn.com, @rude1.blacksky.team and Suba Vasudevan.
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🇩🇰 Denmark scraps its "chat control" plans — for now
🇦🇺 Oz adds platforms to social media ban
🌍 New Integrity Institute CEO
...and more!
Plus posts of note from @alixdunn.com, @rude1.blacksky.team and Suba Vasudevan.
www.everythinginmoderation.co/france-shein...
France cracks down, Denmark backs down and more platforms banned Down Under
The week in content moderation - edition #313
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November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Your Week in Review just dropped:
🇩🇰 Denmark scraps its "chat control" plans — for now
🇦🇺 Oz adds platforms to social media ban
🌍 New Integrity Institute CEO
...and more!
Plus posts of note from @alixdunn.com, @rude1.blacksky.team and Suba Vasudevan.
www.everythinginmoderation.co/france-shein...
🇩🇰 Denmark scraps its "chat control" plans — for now
🇦🇺 Oz adds platforms to social media ban
🌍 New Integrity Institute CEO
...and more!
Plus posts of note from @alixdunn.com, @rude1.blacksky.team and Suba Vasudevan.
www.everythinginmoderation.co/france-shein...
Chatbots your thing? This week’s edition of Week in Review is full of 'em:
• Under 18s face Character.ai chatbots lockdown
• OpenAI's transparency drive
• Better platform data access for researchers
• Former safety researcher speaks out
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• Under 18s face Character.ai chatbots lockdown
• OpenAI's transparency drive
• Better platform data access for researchers
• Former safety researcher speaks out
🔗
www.everythinginmoderation.co/characterai-...
Under-18 chatbot ban, OpenAI's cynical transparency and more researcher access
The week in content moderation - edition #312
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November 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Chatbots your thing? This week’s edition of Week in Review is full of 'em:
• Under 18s face Character.ai chatbots lockdown
• OpenAI's transparency drive
• Better platform data access for researchers
• Former safety researcher speaks out
🔗
www.everythinginmoderation.co/characterai-...
• Under 18s face Character.ai chatbots lockdown
• OpenAI's transparency drive
• Better platform data access for researchers
• Former safety researcher speaks out
🔗
www.everythinginmoderation.co/characterai-...
In case you missed it, here's the latest edition of EiM's Week in Review:
• Parents criticise chatbots in US Senate
• Uni of Pennsylvania publishes AI hate speech paper
• How platforms reacted to Charlie Kirk's death
• Uta Briesewitz on her new film
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• Parents criticise chatbots in US Senate
• Uni of Pennsylvania publishes AI hate speech paper
• How platforms reacted to Charlie Kirk's death
• Uta Briesewitz on her new film
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Moderating Charlie Kirk's legacy, chatbots under fire and LLMs that can't agree
The week in content moderation - edition #305
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September 23, 2025 at 5:45 AM
In case you missed it, here's the latest edition of EiM's Week in Review:
• Parents criticise chatbots in US Senate
• Uni of Pennsylvania publishes AI hate speech paper
• How platforms reacted to Charlie Kirk's death
• Uta Briesewitz on her new film
www.everythinginmoderation.co/charlie-kirk...
• Parents criticise chatbots in US Senate
• Uni of Pennsylvania publishes AI hate speech paper
• How platforms reacted to Charlie Kirk's death
• Uta Briesewitz on her new film
www.everythinginmoderation.co/charlie-kirk...
The major online speech and safety stories this week...
• Researchers get closer to platform data under DSA
• US Supreme Court rules on age verification laws
• Platform safety teams face cuts (again)
• @alexleavitt.bsky.social with new Roblox research
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• Researchers get closer to platform data under DSA
• US Supreme Court rules on age verification laws
• Platform safety teams face cuts (again)
• @alexleavitt.bsky.social with new Roblox research
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DSA’s new demands, US age checks upheld, and Roblox suspension research
The week in content moderation - edition #296
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July 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The major online speech and safety stories this week...
• Researchers get closer to platform data under DSA
• US Supreme Court rules on age verification laws
• Platform safety teams face cuts (again)
• @alexleavitt.bsky.social with new Roblox research
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• Researchers get closer to platform data under DSA
• US Supreme Court rules on age verification laws
• Platform safety teams face cuts (again)
• @alexleavitt.bsky.social with new Roblox research
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Today's Week in Review tl;dr
• Ofcom's adult site win
• Invest in AI detection, @oversightboard.bsky.social tells Meta
• @dfrlab.bsky.social finds Grok bias
• Reddit mods explain
Plus, notable T&S posts that evaded the filters.
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• Ofcom's adult site win
• Invest in AI detection, @oversightboard.bsky.social tells Meta
• @dfrlab.bsky.social finds Grok bias
• Reddit mods explain
Plus, notable T&S posts that evaded the filters.
Get it every Friday.
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UK’s age check mandate, Grok gets it wrong (again) and Singaporean mods shine
The week in content moderation - edition #295
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June 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Today's Week in Review tl;dr
• Ofcom's adult site win
• Invest in AI detection, @oversightboard.bsky.social tells Meta
• @dfrlab.bsky.social finds Grok bias
• Reddit mods explain
Plus, notable T&S posts that evaded the filters.
Get it every Friday.
www.everythinginmoderation.co/ofcom-pornhu...
• Ofcom's adult site win
• Invest in AI detection, @oversightboard.bsky.social tells Meta
• @dfrlab.bsky.social finds Grok bias
• Reddit mods explain
Plus, notable T&S posts that evaded the filters.
Get it every Friday.
www.everythinginmoderation.co/ofcom-pornhu...
The latest Week in Review has got all this:
• Wikipedia critiques UK's internet law
• @oii.ox.ac.uk's new research
• Match Group scales back
• X's new media man
Posts from @niamhmcintyre.bsky.social, Dr Liz Milovidov and @brandonsilverman.bsky.social
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• Wikipedia critiques UK's internet law
• @oii.ox.ac.uk's new research
• Match Group scales back
• X's new media man
Posts from @niamhmcintyre.bsky.social, Dr Liz Milovidov and @brandonsilverman.bsky.social
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35,000 ways to harass women, Wikipedia pushes back and Stoll turns source
The week in content moderation - edition #292
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May 14, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The latest Week in Review has got all this:
• Wikipedia critiques UK's internet law
• @oii.ox.ac.uk's new research
• Match Group scales back
• X's new media man
Posts from @niamhmcintyre.bsky.social, Dr Liz Milovidov and @brandonsilverman.bsky.social
www.everythinginmoderation.co/oxford-insit...
• Wikipedia critiques UK's internet law
• @oii.ox.ac.uk's new research
• Match Group scales back
• X's new media man
Posts from @niamhmcintyre.bsky.social, Dr Liz Milovidov and @brandonsilverman.bsky.social
www.everythinginmoderation.co/oxford-insit...
Friday's content moderation and internet regulation Week in Review included:
▪️ Latest DSA enforcement delay
▪️ OpenAI update content warnings and Model Spec
▪️ @themarkup.org's Match Group investigation
▪️ Ye/Kanye West
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▪️ Latest DSA enforcement delay
▪️ OpenAI update content warnings and Model Spec
▪️ @themarkup.org's Match Group investigation
▪️ Ye/Kanye West
Get it in your inbox every week.
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'Profit over safety', TikTok announce more cuts and the global regulatory gap
The week in content moderation - edition #282
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February 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Friday's content moderation and internet regulation Week in Review included:
▪️ Latest DSA enforcement delay
▪️ OpenAI update content warnings and Model Spec
▪️ @themarkup.org's Match Group investigation
▪️ Ye/Kanye West
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▪️ Latest DSA enforcement delay
▪️ OpenAI update content warnings and Model Spec
▪️ @themarkup.org's Match Group investigation
▪️ Ye/Kanye West
Get it in your inbox every week.
www.everythinginmoderation.co/match-group-...
This week, 1000+ people gathered in Paris to talk AI innovation. But where did safety come in?
▪️ A readout from the AI Action Summit
▪️ The launch of ROOST.tools
▪️ Shopify reacts to a Nazi
▪️ Sonia Kgomo
All in this week's Week in Review.
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▪️ A readout from the AI Action Summit
▪️ The launch of ROOST.tools
▪️ Shopify reacts to a Nazi
▪️ Sonia Kgomo
All in this week's Week in Review.
www.everythinginmoderation.co/ai-safety-th...
AI safety theatre, Shopify’s policy dodge, and the reality of moderation work
The week in content moderation - edition #281
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February 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This week, 1000+ people gathered in Paris to talk AI innovation. But where did safety come in?
▪️ A readout from the AI Action Summit
▪️ The launch of ROOST.tools
▪️ Shopify reacts to a Nazi
▪️ Sonia Kgomo
All in this week's Week in Review.
www.everythinginmoderation.co/ai-safety-th...
▪️ A readout from the AI Action Summit
▪️ The launch of ROOST.tools
▪️ Shopify reacts to a Nazi
▪️ Sonia Kgomo
All in this week's Week in Review.
www.everythinginmoderation.co/ai-safety-th...
Regulatory chess everywhere you look in today's Week in Review.
▪️ EU bolsters DSA compliance
▪️ How safe are VLMs?
▪️ @bsky.app's 2024 mod report released
▪️ Sean O'Grady
Plus posts of the week from Fay Johnson, @davidevanharris.com & Ruby Y.
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▪️ EU bolsters DSA compliance
▪️ How safe are VLMs?
▪️ @bsky.app's 2024 mod report released
▪️ Sean O'Grady
Plus posts of the week from Fay Johnson, @davidevanharris.com & Ruby Y.
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EU bolsters DSA compliance, multimodal moderation and Bluesky release T&S report
The week in content moderation - edition #278
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January 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Regulatory chess everywhere you look in today's Week in Review.
▪️ EU bolsters DSA compliance
▪️ How safe are VLMs?
▪️ @bsky.app's 2024 mod report released
▪️ Sean O'Grady
Plus posts of the week from Fay Johnson, @davidevanharris.com & Ruby Y.
www.everythinginmoderation.co/european-com...
▪️ EU bolsters DSA compliance
▪️ How safe are VLMs?
▪️ @bsky.app's 2024 mod report released
▪️ Sean O'Grady
Plus posts of the week from Fay Johnson, @davidevanharris.com & Ruby Y.
www.everythinginmoderation.co/european-com...
What. A. Week. Here it is, all in one place:
▪️ Elon Musk's twitchy fingers
▪️ WebPurify acquired
▪️ All the reaction to Meta's T&S about-turn
▪️ Creators of Discord's biggest mod bot
Plus posts of the week from david wolfpaw, @delbius.bsky.social & ATIM.
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▪️ Elon Musk's twitchy fingers
▪️ WebPurify acquired
▪️ All the reaction to Meta's T&S about-turn
▪️ Creators of Discord's biggest mod bot
Plus posts of the week from david wolfpaw, @delbius.bsky.social & ATIM.
www.everythinginmoderation.co/meta-zuckerb...
Reaction to Meta's T&S about-turn, safety tech aquisition and Discord bot builders
The week in content moderation - edition #276
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January 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
What. A. Week. Here it is, all in one place:
▪️ Elon Musk's twitchy fingers
▪️ WebPurify acquired
▪️ All the reaction to Meta's T&S about-turn
▪️ Creators of Discord's biggest mod bot
Plus posts of the week from david wolfpaw, @delbius.bsky.social & ATIM.
www.everythinginmoderation.co/meta-zuckerb...
▪️ Elon Musk's twitchy fingers
▪️ WebPurify acquired
▪️ All the reaction to Meta's T&S about-turn
▪️ Creators of Discord's biggest mod bot
Plus posts of the week from david wolfpaw, @delbius.bsky.social & ATIM.
www.everythinginmoderation.co/meta-zuckerb...
In this week's Everything in Moderation (#225):
▪️ Macron vs Christchurch Call absentees
▪️ New product 'cookbook'
▪️ Etsy and X/Twitter react to Israel/Palestine
▪️ Mod queen Christine Moellenberndt
Posts of note c/o Tracy Chou, Nu Wexler and 7amleh www.everythinginmoderation.co/platform-des...
▪️ Macron vs Christchurch Call absentees
▪️ New product 'cookbook'
▪️ Etsy and X/Twitter react to Israel/Palestine
▪️ Mod queen Christine Moellenberndt
Posts of note c/o Tracy Chou, Nu Wexler and 7amleh www.everythinginmoderation.co/platform-des...
A product 'cookbook' for reducing harm, Christchurch Call under the spotlight and Kethryvis podcast
The week in content moderation - edition #225
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November 22, 2023 at 7:26 AM
In this week's Everything in Moderation (#225):
▪️ Macron vs Christchurch Call absentees
▪️ New product 'cookbook'
▪️ Etsy and X/Twitter react to Israel/Palestine
▪️ Mod queen Christine Moellenberndt
Posts of note c/o Tracy Chou, Nu Wexler and 7amleh www.everythinginmoderation.co/platform-des...
▪️ Macron vs Christchurch Call absentees
▪️ New product 'cookbook'
▪️ Etsy and X/Twitter react to Israel/Palestine
▪️ Mod queen Christine Moellenberndt
Posts of note c/o Tracy Chou, Nu Wexler and 7amleh www.everythinginmoderation.co/platform-des...
In this week's Everything in Moderation (#224):
▪️ EU court rules in favour of platforms
▪️ 'Trust and safety as a service'
▪️ Differing fortunes of BPOs
▪️ TwoHat's Christopher Priebe
Posts of note c/o Andy Burrows, Kat Mierzejewska + Dima Samaro
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▪️ EU court rules in favour of platforms
▪️ 'Trust and safety as a service'
▪️ Differing fortunes of BPOs
▪️ TwoHat's Christopher Priebe
Posts of note c/o Andy Burrows, Kat Mierzejewska + Dima Samaro
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'Trust and safety as a service', safety experts sign AI letter and TwoHat founder exits Microsoft
The week in content moderation - edition #224
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November 10, 2023 at 10:45 PM
In this week's Everything in Moderation (#224):
▪️ EU court rules in favour of platforms
▪️ 'Trust and safety as a service'
▪️ Differing fortunes of BPOs
▪️ TwoHat's Christopher Priebe
Posts of note c/o Andy Burrows, Kat Mierzejewska + Dima Samaro
www.everythinginmoderation.co/trust-and-sa...
▪️ EU court rules in favour of platforms
▪️ 'Trust and safety as a service'
▪️ Differing fortunes of BPOs
▪️ TwoHat's Christopher Priebe
Posts of note c/o Andy Burrows, Kat Mierzejewska + Dima Samaro
www.everythinginmoderation.co/trust-and-sa...
Missed Friday's newsletter (#223)?
▪️ Amnesty Ethiopia report critical of Meta
▪️ 'AI safety must from internet governance'
▪️ Telegram's role in Israel-Palestine
▪️ Dario Amodei
Posts of note c/o Alex Reeve Givens, Nicklas Lundblad + Matthew Clifford
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▪️ Amnesty Ethiopia report critical of Meta
▪️ 'AI safety must from internet governance'
▪️ Telegram's role in Israel-Palestine
▪️ Dario Amodei
Posts of note c/o Alex Reeve Givens, Nicklas Lundblad + Matthew Clifford
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How internet governance can inform AI safety, 'nonexistent' T&S teams, and Amodei talks
The week in content moderation - edition #223
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November 7, 2023 at 8:13 AM
Missed Friday's newsletter (#223)?
▪️ Amnesty Ethiopia report critical of Meta
▪️ 'AI safety must from internet governance'
▪️ Telegram's role in Israel-Palestine
▪️ Dario Amodei
Posts of note c/o Alex Reeve Givens, Nicklas Lundblad + Matthew Clifford
www.everythinginmoderation.co/ai-safety-in...
▪️ Amnesty Ethiopia report critical of Meta
▪️ 'AI safety must from internet governance'
▪️ Telegram's role in Israel-Palestine
▪️ Dario Amodei
Posts of note c/o Alex Reeve Givens, Nicklas Lundblad + Matthew Clifford
www.everythinginmoderation.co/ai-safety-in...
In this week's Everything in Moderation (#222):
▪️ UK's Online Safety Bill finally becomes law
▪️ New AI transparency index
▪️ US states file Meta lawsuit
▪️ Integrity Institute's Rachel Fagen
Posts of note c/o Caroline Greer, Joseph Cox + Brian Merchant
www.everythinginmoderation.co/meta-instagr...
▪️ UK's Online Safety Bill finally becomes law
▪️ New AI transparency index
▪️ US states file Meta lawsuit
▪️ Integrity Institute's Rachel Fagen
Posts of note c/o Caroline Greer, Joseph Cox + Brian Merchant
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US states file Meta lawsuit, a new platform transparency index and Fagen steps down
The week in content moderation - edition #222
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October 29, 2023 at 8:41 AM
In this week's Everything in Moderation (#222):
▪️ UK's Online Safety Bill finally becomes law
▪️ New AI transparency index
▪️ US states file Meta lawsuit
▪️ Integrity Institute's Rachel Fagen
Posts of note c/o Caroline Greer, Joseph Cox + Brian Merchant
www.everythinginmoderation.co/meta-instagr...
▪️ UK's Online Safety Bill finally becomes law
▪️ New AI transparency index
▪️ US states file Meta lawsuit
▪️ Integrity Institute's Rachel Fagen
Posts of note c/o Caroline Greer, Joseph Cox + Brian Merchant
www.everythinginmoderation.co/meta-instagr...
In this week's Everything in Moderation (#219):
▪️ Supreme Court to decide on Florida/Texas cases in 2024
▪️ Safety startups on the money
▪️ Twitch to grow Safety Council
▪️ Shelby Grossman
Post of note c/o Joan Donovan, Joseph Cox and, er, Mr Beast
www.everythinginmoderation.co/supreme-cour...
▪️ Supreme Court to decide on Florida/Texas cases in 2024
▪️ Safety startups on the money
▪️ Twitch to grow Safety Council
▪️ Shelby Grossman
Post of note c/o Joan Donovan, Joseph Cox and, er, Mr Beast
www.everythinginmoderation.co/supreme-cour...
The 'future of speech' court case, safety startups get $$$ and Shelby on teaching T&S
The week in content moderation - edition #219
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October 6, 2023 at 9:54 PM
In this week's Everything in Moderation (#219):
▪️ Supreme Court to decide on Florida/Texas cases in 2024
▪️ Safety startups on the money
▪️ Twitch to grow Safety Council
▪️ Shelby Grossman
Post of note c/o Joan Donovan, Joseph Cox and, er, Mr Beast
www.everythinginmoderation.co/supreme-cour...
▪️ Supreme Court to decide on Florida/Texas cases in 2024
▪️ Safety startups on the money
▪️ Twitch to grow Safety Council
▪️ Shelby Grossman
Post of note c/o Joan Donovan, Joseph Cox and, er, Mr Beast
www.everythinginmoderation.co/supreme-cour...
Hey bluesky 👋🏽 Not sure this will end up any better than the others but it sure can't be any worse. At least there's a moderation tab... say hi, promise to say it back
October 6, 2023 at 9:52 PM
Hey bluesky 👋🏽 Not sure this will end up any better than the others but it sure can't be any worse. At least there's a moderation tab... say hi, promise to say it back