Organizer: ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute

Description:

Digital news consumers are increasingly relying on social media platforms as the main source of information despite the pervasive circulation of misinformation, disinformation, and fake news, as well as harmful content such as hate speech and terrorism. Given the influential role that social media plays in shaping public discourse, there is an urgent need to address the role of content moderation on such platforms. Exchanges on social media platforms can have an outsized influence in shaping the worldview of netizens as they can affect how the public processes and discerns news especially on pressing global issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
While each content sharing and social media platform has its own community policies and standards, each online community or group on social media also has its own internal moderators who have their own standards and policies in managing user-generated content. Thus, the aim of this webinar is to understand how social media editors in Southeast Asia formulate and implement their content moderation policies as well as moderate sensitive and controversial topics while balancing moral, ethical and cultural standards.

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