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Tech Talk: Shadow Banning — Talking Tech w/ Ana Valens & Gabe Nicholas

/ Nick Warmington, Jamal Magby, Yona Tali Roberts Golding, Gabriel Nicholas

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Controversy around content moderation on social media platforms is a perennial topic in the tech news cycle. Some advocates argue for greater accountability on the part of companies for content published on their platforms, while others believe that hiding any user generated material is censorship. 

Here to discuss one of the more opaque forms of content moderation are Gabe Nicholas, Research Fellow at CDT and author of Shedding Light on Shadowbanning, a recent report on the practice of covert content moderation, and Ana Valens, a journalist specializing in adult content and queer communities who has written about her own experience being shadowbanned by Twitter.

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