
31 May 2017: The Weekly Takedown
by Jillian C. York | May 31 2017
LONG READ: Last week, a leak of Facebook’s internal rulebook for content moderation made waves, demonstrating the difficulty of regulation at scale.
CENSORED: Facebook operates on the scale of governments, but the company is no democracy, writes Sarah Kessler.
SPEECH!: Monica Bickert, head of Facebook’s global policy management, responds to the Guardian’s reporting on the leak of content moderation guidelines from inside the company.
404: A YouTube video of a giant American flag being unfurled at a stadium on 9/11 was deemed not “advertiser friendly” and disqualified from featuring ads.

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