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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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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