YouTube has announced a plan to crack down on spam and abusive content in comments and livestream chats. Of course, YouTube will be doing this with bots, which will now have the power to issue ...

Spotify has added new automatic moderation tools to its podcast commenting features, first added to the platform in July. Creators can now choose from three moderation settings for English-language ...

Instagram started to automatically block offensive comments Thursday, using artificial intelligence to go beyond simple keyword filters. The use of this technology is also a test case for Facebook as ...

The new feature prevents any new comments from being added to videos without removing existing ones. YouTube has also renamed other comment moderation tools so they’re easier to understand. The new ...

“Over the last few years, we’ve had to limit the number of stories open for comment at any given time. Yet, we still regularly see more than 300,000 comments posted to our sites in an average month.

Note to readers: I first published the blog post below in 2022, after the Fifth Circuit's ruling. I thought I would repost it in light of the Supreme Court's oral argument in the case next week. — ...

Spotify announced this week the rollout of a comments feature on its podcasts. But we’ve already seen other tools’ and websites’ comment sections devolve over the years into hate speech and ...