Ben Whitelaw

Ben Whitelaw

Founder and editor of Everything in Moderation* with 15+ years of working in media strategy. Ben has led content moderation teams for news organisations and is co-host of the Ctrl-Alt-Speech podcast
Apr
22
Nadine Dorries, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, walking into Downing Street

The great podcast moderation problem, 'Facebook's chief fixer' and another dislike button

The week in content moderation - edition #156
5 min read
Apr
15

New call for platform transparency, YouTube's spam problem and talking 'algospeak'

The week in content moderation - edition #155
5 min read
Apr
08

Verifying who you say you are, Canada's regulatory experts and banning climate misinfo

The week in content moderation - edition #154
5 min read
Apr
06
Tesh Goyal, Google Research's Head of User Research for Responsible AI Tools

Tesh Goyal on devising a new framework for dealing with online harassment

Covering: using Perspective API to automatically detect abuse and open-sourcing Harassment Manager for other newsrooms
8 min read
Apr
01

📌 A new way to appeal your ban, 'GDPR for public discourse' and more mental health lawsuits

5 min read
Apr
01
Jessica Mason, Head of Global Policy and Public Affairs at Clubhouse

Jess Mason on how Clubhouse structures its trust and safety team

Covering: working with third-party groups to develop effective policy and how to get feedback from users on new guidelines
7 min read
Mar
18

📌 "World-first" online safety law, Ukraine u-turn and a different Nazi problem

5 min read
Mar
11

📌 Life as a Chinese content reviewer, NetzDG violates EU law and a tool to combat harassment

5 min read
Mar
04

📌 How platforms tried to contain Russia, largest ever CSAM survey and Kenyan mods update

6 min read
Feb
25

📌 No ban for anonymous accounts, life as a Pornhub mod and what Neal Mohan said next

4 min read