Content Moderation

“They've invested billions of dollars on this. They come up with these policy documents that are hundreds of pages long. And it doesn't appear to us like it has actually helped misinformation problems, or it's helped Reduce the level of harassment, or it's help…”

“I don't think that like humans moderating content is the right way forward.”

“Most of the action is in private messaging, which is broadly not content moderated broadly, and we can get into the details there. And by moderating feeds and not moderating messaging, which is where the action is because you can see the feed. So people see th…”

“I actually think from a first principles perspective, this is the right thing to do, and it has been for a long time. It was a mistake to go down moderation in the first place. And this is an incredibly opportunistic moment where, oh my God, it's actually poss…”

“If you don't moderate, you put more and more pressure on having real identity in a way that can be like, oh, that's this person. And like, I trust this person. Networks of trust. Like, that's the only solution.”

“It's like, this is literally just content moderation, two point out on huge steroids.”

“You re-run all of the arguments we had around content moderation and social media of what should people be allowed to say. You either say more or less anything, which is Elon Musk's idea, or you end up with a long list of criteria, which is where Facebook has …”

“This is eminently doable. It's going to require a huge lift and probably a lot of changes to the way that content is moderated on platforms. It will require new algorithms. And of course it will require new regulation of types, right? Over the next few years.”

“I just think that what he's learning and what we're living and seeing in real time is that there is no canonically right decision ever. In this space. There's only a decision where some percentage will support and some percentage will always be against.”

“Content moderation is, it's not AI driven, right? It's not machine learning. It's, you know, there's elements of that to it, like anything in tech, but it's a manual job that real people are doing. And if you're laying off people that do that, then stuff's not…”

“When I talk to activists around the world that work on issues like women, like violence against women, gay rights, they say across the board, our accounts all get taken down. Because these systems that are meant to keep us safe, because they're not done in a v…”

“The vast majority of the decisions are not the lab leak theory from China or Hunter Biden's laptop. They're not things where people disagree. They are, you know, things where literally everybody who thinks content moderation is bad would look at that and go, o…”