Custodians of the Internet

Gillespie, T. (2018). Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media. Yale University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2018

Link

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300173130/custodians-of-the-internet/

Cited from

military_strategic_studies, sociology_anthropology, systems_cybernetics

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3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Reaction-Channel Back-Action
  • Because several of these channels are fast (a viral wrongful-takedown thread metabolizes in days
• Self Engagement Under Misclassification
  • In content moderation, false-positive enforcement suspends the best contributors during a takedown wave.

    This sourceDocuments how at-scale content-moderation enforcement produces false-positive takedowns and suspensions that erroneously penalize legitimate (often high-value) contributors.

• Structural Filtering
  • In platform recommendation and content moderation, ad-revenue incentives, regulatory exposure, brand-safety pressure, engagement metrics, and trust-and-safety policies jointly shape what is amplified — the line emerging from the filter set rather than from an editor.

    This sourceShows that what platforms amplify or suppress is shaped jointly by advertising/brand-safety pressure, regulatory and liability exposure, engagement metrics, and trust-and-safety policy — impersonal parallel filters rather than a single editorial decision, supporting the platform-moderation instance.

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