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Oct 18, 2017 · A video of her death streamed on Live.me for more than 40 minutes before it cut out. She had regularly shared her feelings of depression and hopelessness on the site prior to taking her life in...
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Nov 9, 2022 · “His body is down. He hits him two or three more times.” Since the videos were uploaded in March 2021, they are each approaching 1.5 million views.
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- Andrew Burton
- Evading Moderation
- What About Copyright Takedowns?
- Room For Improvement
- Improving Digital Citizenship Skills
Post-moderation means even the worst content can be published. Either the platforms identify it with machine learning systems, or users report it to be processed by human moderators. But it can be live for five minutes, an hour or longer. Once a video is up, it can be downloaded by bad actors, modulated to reduce the chance of detection by content ...
Some have noted social media platforms appear very adept at quickly removing copyrighted material from their services (and thereby avoiding huge fines), but can seem more tardy when it comes to disturbing content. However, copyright videos are, in many ways, easier for machine learning moderation systems to detect. Existing systems used to limit th...
Certainly, there’s room for improvement. It’s a platform-wide, society-wide problem — we can’t just say TikTok is doing a bad job, it’s something all the platforms need to tackle together. But asking market competitors to come up with a coordinated approach is not easy; platforms normally don’t share resources and work together globally to handle c...
There’s a role for citizens, too. Every time these disturbing videos do the rounds, many more people go online to find the video - they talk about it with their friends and contribute to its circulation. Complicating matters is the fact reporting videos on TikTok is not as straightforward as it is on other platforms, such as Facebook or Instagram. ...
The video of Ronnie McNutt’s suicide traumatised kids who saw it on their social media feeds - but how it got there is also disturbing. Jamie Seidel. @JamieSeidel. 6 min read. September 14, 2020 - 9:34AM. Photos of intimate body parts are bad. But a livestream of a suicide is fine?
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- Jamie Seidel
Apr 22, 2024 · Shortly before he died, she found, her 16-year-old, Mason Edens, had liked dozens of graphic videos about breakups, depression and suicide.
Sep 8, 2020 · TikTok tries to remove widely shared suicide clip. Video-sharing site TikTok is struggling to take down clips showing a man killing himself. The footage, which has been circulating on the...
Jul 8, 2022 · The emotive outdoor gallery displays 50 smiling photos taken in the last days of people who died by suicide. Simon, 63. It also shares the stories of shock and grief their families and friends...
