moderation

Michael Easter on Excess, Moderation, and the Scarcity Brain

Published 2023-10-31 awareness seem excess

Slot machines, social media, and potato chips: we humans seem to find a lot of things hard to consume in moderation. Why does "enough" seem so much harder to sa…

Death, fear, and anxiety at Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site in North America

Published 2019-06-20 campus anxiety casey

Earlier this year, The Verge’s Casey Newton broke the story about the working conditions of Facebook moderators at a campus in Phoenix, AZ In his feature, “The …

Why big companies will never get content management right, with UCLA’s Sarah T Roberts

Published 2019-07-03 sarah moderation roberts

Behind the screen: content moderation in the shadows of social media author Sarah T Roberts joins Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel to discuss the business and …

Paul Frazee on Bluesky and the AT Protocol

Published 2025-01-17 atproto frazee ieee

Paul Frazee , CTO of Bluesky, speaks with SE Radio's Jeremy Jung about the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATProto) used by the Bluesky decentralized social ne…

It Was Not a Scam

Published 2022-02-25 pornhub bbc nfts

On the Verge, a former Pornhub mod reflects on the site's lax content moderation history, and at the BBC we've got an investigation into a whole fake company. P…