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).

• List of figures List of tables List of boxes List of contributors1 On methods for content moderation research RICHARD ROGERS2 From Twitter to X: Demotion, Community Notes, and the apparent shift from adjudication to consensus-building EMILLIE DE KEULENAAR3 Ranking authority: A critical audit of YouTube’s content moderation DANIEL JURG, SALVATORE ROMANO AND BERNHARD RIEDER4 The performance of borderline content on Facebook RICHARD ROGERS AND KAMILA KORONSKA5 Minors as (misused) content on Instagram NATALIA SÁNCHEZ-QUERUBÍN6 Malicious earworms and useful memes: How the far-right surfs TikTok’s audio trends MARLOES GEBOERS AND MARCUS BÖSCH7 The internet’s dark alleys: Laissez-faire content moderation and illegal trade on Telegram STIJN PEETERS8 Grey areas of content moderation: A trace analysis of Pornhub LUCIA BAINOTTI9 Gatekeepers of the mobile ecosystem: Understanding app store moderation ESTHER WELTEVREDE, ANNE HELMOND, FERNANDO VAN DER VLIST, STEFANIE DUGUAY AND MICHAEL DIETER10 Walking the store: Cultic networks and content moderation on Amazon.com MARC TUTERS11 Contested components: Studying interface enrichment as a form of content moderation on Google and Bing SAL HAGEN AND GUILLÉN TORRES12 DSA, AIA, and LLMs: Approaches to conceptualizing and auditing moderation in LLM-based chatbots across languages and interfaces in electoral contexts NATALIA STANUSCH, RAZIYE BUSE ÇETIN, SALVATORE ROMANO, MIAZIA SCHUELER, MERET BAUMGARTNER, BASTIAN AUGUST AND ALEXANDRA ROS¸CAIndex