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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
TopicContent moderation

Topic: content moderation

Elon Musk’s X sues New York over law requiring disclosure of hate speech moderation policies

The lawsuit cited a letter from two legislators accusing X and Musk of a 'disturbing record' on content moderation that 'threatens the foundations of our democracy'.

AI is a silent spectator to hate speech. It doesn’t know how to moderate regional languages

Hate speech is highly context-dependent, but anthropologist Sahana Udupa's findings revealed that the datasets powering AI algorithms are not.

Meta replacing fact-checks with ‘untested’ community notes in US sparks fears of misinformation spike

Announcement is seen as a move to improve relations with US President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office later this month. It is unclear when or if this will be implemented in India.

‘Nudes in DMs, rape threats from 14-yr-olds’: Women gamers say KYCs a start but govt must do more

MeitY's draft online gaming rules has started a conversation about safety of women gamers, who say not just KYC, moderation & combating anonymous accounts also needed.

The Twitter Files 2.0 — how teams ‘blacklisted users, stopped tweets from trending’

Two US journalists have been tweeting exposé claiming former Twitter executives censored content & imposed stealth bans on users based on bias and political considerations.

On Camera

Why Modi, BJP should worry about bad blood between CEC Gyanesh Kumar and Rahul Gandhi

If there is bad blood between the CEC and the Opposition leaders, it will shake the people’s faith in election results. It’s the worst thing that could happen to Indian democracy.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

India provides Nepal with military equipment, medical supplies; PM Oli likely to visit next month

New Delhi: India has handed over military equipment, medical supplies, trained dogs and horses to the Nepalese Army Monday, ahead of Prime Minister K.P....

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?