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When content moderation algorithms disrupt political dialogue

My political discussion group moved online during covid and now the platform's moderation bot keeps removing comments for violations no human moderator would flag.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Automated systems designed to maintain civil discourse lack the contextual understanding necessary to preserve meaningful political conversation.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Algorithmic politics?”

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