MC Weekly Update 12/26: The Show Must Go On

Moderated Content

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:

• Stanford Internet Observatory’s David Thiel wrote a report documenting Child Sexual Abuse Material in a major dataset used to train AI models - David Thiel / SIO; Samantha Cole / 404 Media
• Lots of DSA news from the EU:
  • Three new platforms have been designated Very Large Online Platforms – how did the adult sites get overlooked before? Woops! Jon Porter / The Verge
  • The Commission has announced a formal investigation into X - Martin Husovec / DSA Newsletter
  • Researchers have reason to doubt the information platforms are submitting to the DSA Transparency Database - Amaury Trujillo, Tiziano Fagni, Stefano Cresci / arXiv
• Content moderation controversies around the Israel/Gaza conflict continue.
  • The Meta Oversight Board released its “expedited” decisions on the topic - Oversight Board
  • Human Rights Watch released a report alleging suppression of pro-Palestinian content by the company - Human Rights Watch
• Substack has a Nazi Problem - Ken White / The Popehat Report
• The Netchoice Restatement of the Law continues to expand, with the trade group bringing a challenge to the Utah Social Media Law - Hannah Schoenbaum / AP

Join the conversation and connect with Evelyn and Alex on Twitter at @evelyndouek and @alexstamos.

Moderated Content is produced in partnership by Stanford Law School and the Cyber Policy Center. Special thanks to John Perrino for research and editorial assistance.

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