In a well-balanced and synchronized manner, all the giant social media platforms declared today they will be introducing several developments in order to fight misinformation and enhance the presentation of credible content. X (previously known as twitter) launched a new method of verification of news outlets and other public personalities in order to help its […]

Today many controversies arose on the social media platforms where there was a high profile celebrity who tweeted something that created trouble and controversy. The celebrity, who has been noted to have a way with words particularly when expressing himself on social issues posted a statement regarding a sensitive political issue at the time and […]

Reddit, an internet-based social news and discussion site, is receiving a lot of flak from users since the adoption of a new comment ordering system. Just recently the new change was made without any prior notice and for the untrained eye the change has now affected the manner in which comments are shown and prioritized […]

Decisions made in recent months that have attracted controversy across the social media platforms are new changes in the comment moderation policies of the three main services including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The new measures for increased safety have generated some controversy from the ML users, advocacy groups and other industry experts. According to the […]

YouTube has once again tried to enhance the user experience in the platform and this time it has done it in the worst way possible with the comment summarization feature powered by artificial intelligence. The feature, which applies machine learning to summarise lengthy comment threads into short snippets, was designed to assist users in identifying […]

The social networking site’s feature known as “Community Notes” that is used to fact-check posts has been accused of being politically influenced and manipulated. The feature which lets users provide additional information that may help to clarify what would otherwise be ambiguous or even misleading tweets was created to fight fake news through community moderation. […]

The latest feature introduced by TikTok known as DeepTalk which uses AI to create comments on videos has raised controversy among users and tech ethicists. The new feature is still in beta and works by using a user’s view history and comments to write comments that resemble the user’s style. As TikTok claims that it […]

Instagram has recently introduced a set of new features for comment moderation to reduce harassment and abuse but the move has sparked a debate on free speech and censorship. The new features let the users hide comments with certain keywords or phrases and comments from people who do not follow the user or follow them […]

The social media application, Instagram, a product of Meta effectively for sharing of photos and videos, has released new feature that seeks to enhance the quality of discourse in its comment sections. Chamfered “Thoughtful Replies”, this product employs state-of-the-art natural language processing to elicit users to provide more profound and helpful comments on the post. […]

The web giant YouTube has recently declared the change of its comments’ sections’ format from the time-based format to the Community-First format. This proposed change is for the purpose of promoting better and less toxic conversations and to raise awareness of contributions from the viewers. The redesign is a part of a continuous process of […]