Behind the scenes on Facebook, thousands of moderators protect users from graphic content by filtering out posts that break its rules. The BBC has spoken to one moderator based in Kenya, who is taking legal action against its parent company Meta.
The root cause? A lack of eye contact, facial expressions, human touch and even voice intonations, said Kaitlynn Mendes, an associate professor in sociology at Western University.
A successful female gamer has spoken about the trauma of discovering deepfake online porn of herself and the urgent and costly moves needed to remove it.
Sunpi, who has over 117,000 YouTube followers, told The Independent that she was forced to spend about £500 on legal fees to get the content taken down.
Do the conspiracy theorists who push the most shocking narratives circulating online really believe them?
'We’ve had people tracking their bags when airlines can’t find them. Now here’s something new: a passenger tracking an item she left on a plane – to an airport employee’s home.'
'Toward the end of 2022, 8.8 million people watched a TikTok in which a young woman warned viewers: “Stop sleeping on your stomach/side or your face will droop.” One tweeted response to the video later earned more than 6,000 likes. It reads: “[It’s] terrifying that the anti-aging industry has wormed its way into younger and younger audiences. Teenage girls shouldn’t have to feel constantly terrified that everything they do is causing their face to look older.”'
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