Content Moderation across Social Media Platforms

Richard Rogers is Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Director of the Digital Methods Initiative, Humanities Labs. He is the author of Doing Digital Methods (2nd edition, 2024), co-author with Tommaso Venturini of Digital Methods: A Short Introduction (2025) and editor of The Propagation of Misinformation on Social Media: A Cross-platform Analysis (2023).

• ContentContent Moderation across Social Media PlatformsTable of contents1. On methods for content moderation researchRichard Rogers2. From Twitter to X: Demotion, community notes and the apparent shift from adjudication to consensus-buildingEmillie de Keulenaar3. Ranking authority: A critical audit of YouTube’s content moderationDaniel Jurg, Salvatore Romano and Bernhard Rieder4. The performance of borderline content on FacebookRichard Rogers and Kamila Koronska5. Minors as (misused) content on InstagramNatalia Sánchez-Querubín6. Malicious earworms and useful memes: How the far-right surfs TikTok’s audio trendsMarloes Geboers and Marcus Bösch7. The internet’s dark alleys: Laissez-faire content moderation and illegal trade on TelegramStijn Peeters8. Grey areas of content moderation: A trace analysis of PornhubLucia Bainotti9. Gatekeepers of the mobile ecosystem: Understanding app store moderationEsther Weltevrede, Anne Helmond, Fernando van der Vlist, Stefanie Duguay and Michael Dieter10. Walking the store: Cultic networks and content moderation on Amazon.comMarc Tuters11. Contested components: Studying interface enrichment as a form of content moderation on Google and BingSal Hagen and Guillén Torres12. DSA, AIA, and LLMs: Approaches to conceptualizing and auditing moderation in LLM-based chatbots across languages and interfaces in electoral contextsNatalia Stanusch, Raziye Buse Çetin, Salvatore Romano, Miazia Schueler, Meret Baumgartner, Bastian August and Alexandra Roșca