Imagine you poll your friends on how many minutes per pound to roast a turkey. Five respond with 15 minutes; one answers 33 minutes. The most popular model of conformity, the French-Harary-DeGroot ...

AI engineer Harsh Singhal built KooBERT, a groundbreaking multilingual transformer that detects hate speech and toxicity ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Every election cycle, Washington convinces itself that this will be the moment voters finally come home. Republicans think frustrated Americans will sprint back to the GOP once Democrats take a stance ...

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Kevin decided on a career in content moderation after his YouTube recommendations took a bewildering swerve. In 2021, videos appeared on his feed depicting violent attacks by Boko Haram, a Nigerian ...

Elaine Castillo’s second novel, “Moderation,” opens with a blistering portrait of social media’s toxic underbelly. At the social media platform Reeden, moderators are charged with removing harmful ...

In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at Elaine Castillo's Moderation, which follows the vagaries of a social media content moderator’s work and love lives. In its review, PW says "It’s a ...

The platform now lets videos stay online if ‘freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk,’ according to The New York Times. The platform now lets videos stay online if ‘freedom of expression ...

Castillo’s masterful latest (after the essay collection How to Read Now) follows the vagaries of a social media content moderator’s work and love lives. The protagonist is known only by her workplace ...