Content Moderation
What is Content Moderation?
The practice of monitoring and managing user-generated content on platforms to ensure compliance with policies, laws, and community standards.
Terms that appear alongside content moderation
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as content moderation. The number is how many controls name both.
- transparency 11 shared controls
- compliance 9 shared controls
- policy 7 shared controls
- cybersecurity 4 shared controls
- risk assessment 4 shared controls
- audit 4 shared controls
- industry self regulation 3 shared controls
- ccpa 3 shared controls
Frameworks that govern content moderation
What the standards actually require on content moderation
Requirements naming content moderation across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Section 6 of KOSA mandates comprehensive transparency reporting by covered platforms. (1) Section 6(a) Annual Public Transparency Report: (a) Covered platform must publish annual report on safety practices;
KOSA-Transparency-Reporting-Section6-Annual-Disclosure-Risk-Assessment-Independent-Audit-Researcher-Access-Public-Report · KOSA Transparency Reporting + Section 6 + Annual Public Disclosure + Risk Assessment Findings + Independent Audit Results + Researcher Access Reports + Public Report + Reporting Mechanism Statistics + Content Moderation Metrics + Algorithmic Disclosure →Content moderation decisions shall be transparent with clear criteria communicated to users
KISO-2.3 · Transparency in content moderation →Comply with MoTC content removal requests, takedown orders, and lawful access requests within statutory timeframes (typically 24 to 72 hours per order class).
MMCL-5 · Content Moderation, Removal Requests, and Lawful Access →Providers must strengthen management of deep synthesis content, take technical or manual measures to review user inputs and synthesis results, establish and improve feature libraries to identify illegal and undesirable information, and keep records and report...
CN-DS-A10 · Content Moderation and Violation Database →Providers of intermediary services (except micro/small enterprises that are not VLOPs) shall publish, at least annually, clear and comprehensible reports on any content moderation they engaged in during the period.
DSA-Art.15 · Transparency reporting obligations for providers of intermediary services →Article 16 enables the Commission, on its own initiative or upon request from the Board or an NRA, to issue guidance on matters of media regulation, including on Article 4 (rights of media service providers), Article 6 (duties), Article 18 (VLOP content modera...
EMFA-Art.16_17 · Guidance on media regulation and third-country media coordination (Articles 16-17) →Questions people ask about content moderation
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