Ben Whitelaw

Ben Whitelaw

Freelance journalist/media strategist. Leeds United fan. I write a newsletter on content moderation
Jan
08

πŸ“Œ The Trump dump, joining mod academy and being Monika Bickert

3 min read
Jan
01

Substack's moderation rules, 2020 in review, and lobbyists-for-hire

3 min read
Dec
18

πŸ“Œ Speech policy's 'Super Tuesday', photo bots and Clegg's greatest hits

4 min read
Dec
11

πŸ“Œ Hateful memes, upload filters and deleting racist Facebook comments

3 min read
Dec
04

πŸ“Œ 'One Health' for platforms, Oversight Board news and Trump takes aim

3 min read
Nov
27

'End outsourced moderation', flawed Fleets and Seyi appointed

3 min read
Nov
20

πŸ“Œ Mods flock to TikTok, Europe's countdown and free Stanford event

3 min read
Nov
13

πŸ“Œ YouTube's election, Groups get a probation and Trump banned?

3 min read
Nov
06

πŸ“Œ Policing content online, Turkish fines and 4chan’s moderator-in-chief

3 min read
Oct
30

Volunteer mods, auto-deleting #EndSARS and Eli on digital spaces

3 min read