DescriptionThis article explores the challenges of moderating "lawful but awful" content, focusing on definitional clarity, necessity and proportionality, and transparency. It highlights the vagueness surrounding definitions of borderline content and examines the implications of measures like downranking and deamplification, which raise similar concerns to content removal. The paper also addresses gaps in transparency, emphasizing the need for clearer moderation policies, better user-level accountability, and improved data access for independent researchers to enhance the fairness and effectiveness of online content regulation.Related topicEthics and gender sensitivityLinkRead the document
