Working Toward Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation

The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition · Dec 23, 2021 · 56m

In 2018, a group of academics and free expression advocates convened in Santa Clara, California, for a workshop. They emerged with the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation—a high level list of procedural steps that social media companies should take when making decisions about the content on their services. The principles quickly became influential, earning the endorsement of a number of major technology companies like Facebook.Three years later, a second, more detailed edition of the principles has just been released—the product of a broader…