Just a little hack’

Investigating cultures of content moderation circumvention by Facebook users

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ID12656194
AuthorsRosalie Gillett (0000-0002-1437-8050, Queensland University of Technology, corresponding author), Joanne E Gray (The University of Sydney), Joanne Gray (0000-0001-5425-4979, The University of Sydney), D Bondy Valdovinos Kaye (0000-0002-9684-2186, University of Leeds)
Year2023
Volume26
Issue11
Pages6183-6204
Publication date2023-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Media & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14614448221147661
OpenAlexW4318816563
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited33

As social media platforms adapt their rules to limit the presence, spread, and amplification of harmful content on their services, users develop strategies to circumvent content moderation policies. To better understand cultures of content moderation circumvention, including the types of rules that Facebook users seek to circumvent, we analysed a sample of YouTube videos and Reddit threads in which users discuss content moderation circumvention. We show how Facebook users turn to others across platforms to obtain information about circumvention methods. We observe that these users often discuss overcoming Facebook’s content moderation policies in terms that downplay the significance of their intended actions. We suggest that where Facebook’s policies and enforcement measures fail to deter rule violations that may facilitate harm, Facebook should consider new culture-driven approaches to platform governance that foster prosocial environments and engender compliance with platform rules

Enforcement · Harm · Internet privacy · Moderation · Political science · Prosocial behavior · Sample (material · Social media · User-generated content · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Freedom of Expression and Defamation · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology

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