YouTube also has settled a moderator suit, and TikTok faces multiple court actions. Meta, having earlier agreed to pay $52 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed by former Facebook moderators in the United States claiming their work led to psychological harm, now faces a similar suit in Kenya brought on behalf of African moderators working for an outside Facebook contractor.Musk skeptics have noted that since his takeover last year, the volume of misinformation and vitriol on Twitter has surged. As part of his shakeup at Twitter, Elon Musk reportedly slashed the contract workforce that determines what material should be removed from the micro-blogging platform.The laws have been challenged on First Amendment grounds, and the Supreme Court is expected to resolve conflicting rulings from lower courts. Contending that social media companies are biased against conservatives, Republican lawmakers in Texas and Florida have enacted statutes forbidding major platforms from removing content based on viewpoint or politics.On Tuesday, The Washington Post published a leaked copy of previously unreleased findings by investigators for the House Select Committee on the January 6th Attack on the Capitol in which the staff members found evidence that major social media platforms bent their content moderation rules to avoid penalizing conservatives in the run-up to the 2021 insurrection.It seems like controversy about social media content moderation is continually in the headlines, often as it intersects with issues ranging from national security, disinformation and political violence to civil and human rights. This piece is co-published with Just Security.
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