COMO: Content Moderation at Scale Conference Recap

The COMO: Content Moderation at Scale conference was held in Washington DC in early May. It was a follow-up to the Content Moderation and Removal at Scale conference held at Santa Clara University in early February. See my recap of that event.

Like the SCU event, COMO was a sellout event, with about 250 people in the audience and many more watching online. The Twitter conversation trended locally in DC. See #COMOatScale. Some resources from the day:

Videos:

Opening Remarks
Foundations: The Legal and Public Policy Framework for Content (Eric Goldman and Tiffany Li)
Under the Hood: UGC Moderation (Part 1) (Match – Tripadvisor – Twitter – Twitch – Vimeo)
Under the Hood: UGC Moderation (Part 2) (Github – Google – Wikimedia – Facebook)
You Make the Call: Audience Interactive (Emma Llanso and Mike Masnick)
Content Moderation and Law Enforcement
What Machines Are, and Aren’t, Good At
Transparency
Concluding Remarks

Presentations:

My slides on the U.S. law of content moderation

Slides from GitHub, TripAdvisor, Twitch, Twitter, and Vimeo

Photos:

Conference organizer’s Flickr album

My photo album

Media Coverage:

Rebecca Tushnet 1, 2

Techdirt: There Is No Magic Bullet For Moderating A Social Media Platform

What’s Next?

Prof. Kate Klonick of St. John’s Law School is organizing a third event for October 25 in NYC.

We are also working on a possible European offering!