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There’s a big internet regulation moving through the American Congress right now. It’s called KOSPA—the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act—and in the summer of 2024, it passed the Senate with strong bipartisan support.

Make the Internet Safe for Kids – KOSPA and COPPA 2.0 There’s a big internet regulation moving through the American Congress right now. It’s called KOSPA—the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act—and in the summer of 2024, it passed the Senate with strong bipartisan support.

Google search results seem a bit off lately? There’s a growing issue with content moderation. More spammy and misleading content appears, especially from user-generated sites like Reddit, Inc. and Quora

It’s a serious issue impacting search quality and user trust.

This spring, Google’s AI-generated responses (AI Overviews, formerly SGE) occasionally gave misleading and sometimes dangerous answers.

Using glue to make the cheese stick to a pizza is, well, interesting. Thanks, but no thanks, Google 🥴

Google Search Has a Content Moderation Problem Houston, the flaws in Google’s content moderation mean search results can sometimes lead to unwanted and questionable content.

Australia’s new deepfake laws bring up to 6 years in jail for non-consensual AI nudes. 🚨 Time for AI services to catch harmful prompts early to stay compliant – and save on server costs:

Australia’s Deepfake Law: Why Your AI Service Needs Content Moderation Australia is taking a tough stance against deepfake po*******hy. New legislation brings severe penalties for non-consensual AI-generated explicit images.

Fake profiles on LinkedIn are skyrocketing 🚀 Ever seen odd comments or strange connection requests? LinkedIn removed more than 100 million fake accounts in 2023 alone 🤯 We take a look at this issue with graphs and insights:

Fake Accounts Are Getting Way More Common on LinkedIn – Besedo Dealing with fake accounts is challenging for any social media platform, and LinkedIn is no exception. We dug through reports from LinkedIn and found that there has been a huge uptick in fake accounts in recent years.

What a time to be alive: Browser extensions that offer “genuine engagement and authentic comments” with a click 🙄 Thanks, but can we not?

AI Is Taking Comment Spam to the Next Level, and It Is Annoying Everyone What’s behind AI-generated comment spam on LinkedIn and the phenomenon of one-click comments? It’s flooding all our feeds – make it stop, please!

🎉 Happy International Women’s Day! 🎉
Today, we join the world in celebrating the remarkable contributions of women around the globe. We’re especially proud to highlight that 52% of our incredible team comprises talented, ambitious, and inspiring women.

Diversity is the cornerstone of our culture and a key driver of our success. We believe that a diverse team brings diverse ideas, leading to innovative solutions and a richer work environment for everyone.

So, here’s to the women of Besedo and to women everywhere. Your dedication, passion, and commitment contributed to our company’s success and continued building a positive culture.

Let’s continue to break barriers, challenge stereotypes, and create a more inclusive world together. 💪💜

Bullying, harassment, and hate speech. Hundreds of millions of content items, and that’s just Facebook.

We dug around the fantastic Community Standards Enforcement Report from Facebook and learned that in one year, between September 2022 and 2023, Facebook took action on 78,8 million content items.

Looking at the internet as a whole, the numbers around cyberbullying and harassment are equally depressing as they are staggering.

Social media platforms are hotspots for cyberbullying. YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok, and Facebook are among the networks with the highest incidence of cyberbullying.

Children on YouTube are most likely to be targeted, with a 79% likelihood.

🚨 Approximately 41% of U.S. adults have personally experienced some form of online harassment.
🚨 25% have experienced more severe forms of harassment.
👧 Nearly half (46%) of all students aged 13-17 in America have experienced cyberbullying
👦 One in three (33%) middle and high school students have seen rumors about themselves online.

For platforms that offer user-generated content (UGC), preventing cyberbullying is not just a moral responsibility but also essential for maintaining a positive brand image and user experience.

✨ Full story here: https://lnkd.in/dFtRGyWG

Our friends at Voodoo are featured in GritDaily.com about their amazing growth with their social app, Wizz. Their dedication to keeping their users safe is commendable, to say the least! Wow 🚀

Wizz App Creator on What it Takes to Go From Zero to 14M Downloads - Grit Daily News If you haven’t heard of Wizz, it might be because you’re not part of the social media app’s core user base of 13 to 21-year-olds — or you’re not a parent of a

Very exciting days at Global Online Marketplaces in Miami hosted by Online Marketplaces Group. Happy to see folks from OLX Brasil, Cars.com, dubizzle, and lots more on day one. We can’t wait to see what’s in store for the rest of the conference. Hit us up for a coffee! 🇸🇪😃

🚀 Boost your website’s trust factor with our latest blog post! Discover why trust & safety are digital gold, learn the tips & tricks, and get inspired by real-world examples from Amazon.com, Voi Technology, and Etsy.

Building Trust and Safety: Why It Matters and How to Get It Right Discover the importance of trust and safety for websites and apps, learn effective strategies, and explore case studies to ensure a secure user experience.

Good morning everyone at Global Dating Insights! 👋 Today we’re in New York and attending the conference at Dream Downtown. We’re excited to see speakers from OkCupid, Taimi, Jigsaw Dating, and many others! Hope to see you all there.

🚨 Online shoppers! Your feedback is needed to understand trust and safety in online marketplaces. Share your experience in less than 2 minutes and help us create a safer shopping experience for all 😃

Survey: User Experience on Online Marketplaces Online shoppers! Your feedback is needed to improve trust and safety in online marketplaces. Share your experience and help us create a safer shopping experience for all.

Career Join Besedo in creating a safer online experience through content moderation at one of our 7 offices around the world.

“Someone from [company] viewed your profile” Oh boy 🙄 So many ways scammers will try to scam job boards.

The Job Scams Epidemic Learn more how hackers use brands to harvest personal details. We share how you can fight back using content moderation on your job board.

There’s been a lot of talk about content moderation lately in light of the Twitter acquisition. If you find yourself asking whether content moderation is something for your business, well, look no further than this flowchart ✌️😎

So you have a startup leveraging user-generated content – great! Would you rather spend time designing and developing your product or start your mornings reviewing inappropriate content? A leading question if we ever saw one 😬

10 Tips For Startups Dealing With User-Generated Content Review code and design – not d**k pics. Focusing on your core product and your design is what makes startups fun.

Hi friends! Today we’re in San Francisco, meeting with friends and customers at Global Dating Insights ❤️ Come say hello and have a coffee! – Axel 🇸🇪

https://besedo.com/knowledge-hub/blog/keeping-your-gaming-platform-safe-and-enhancing-your-user-experience/

Keeping Your Gaming Platform Safe And Enhancing Your User Experience Prevent bullying, grooming, and harassment on the gaming platform you're developing. In-app messaging should be a safe place in games.

With the rise of online dating comes the problem of fake profiles. So why do people create fake dating profiles and what is done to stop it? We’ll dive into some actions you can take to protect yourself, and also what is being done to protect you. https://hubs.la/Q01g6xz80

Welcome to the Age of Fake Dating Profiles With the rise of online dating comes the problem of fake profiles. So why do people create fake dating profiles and what is done to stop it?

With a user-generated content platform, you’re essentially handing over a massive chunk of your user experience and brand to your user base and community. You’re no longer in control, and that can be more than a little scary: https://hubs.la/Q01fLYMy0

How Bad UX Can Ruin Your Online Brand With user-generated content platforms you’re essentially handing over a massive chunk of your user experience to your community.

Find out which online marketplaces are the biggest by visits per month, category, and more in our list of the biggest marketplaces online in 2022: https://hubs.la/Q01czzgt0

The World’s Top Online Marketplaces 2022 Find out which online marketplaces are the biggest in various countries, categories, and more in our list of the biggest marketplaces online.

What on earth is voicefishing and how can dating apps be flirty but not dirty? https://hubs.la/Q018Zdy40

How can dating apps be flirty but not dirty? One of the surprising and amazing things about the internet, especially when we’re talking about things involving user-generated content, is how many ideas become well-established parts of society before we even fully understand them. Online dating is a perfect example. While the first big dating ...

Storytime: Businesses make themselves open to users and customers communicating in richer ways; text, ratings, emojis, and even video comments. The evolution of language is about empowering the user – while protecting them and optimizing the user experience
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Evolution of language, part three The most successful moderation approaches are about enabling interactions as much as they are about blocking them.

Making sure dating apps are about amore not fraud https://hubs.la/Q014485h0

Making sure dating apps are about amore not fraud Any dating app user will be familiar with the anxiety involved with moving from digital to in-person interactions, and unfortunately for a good reason.

The crux of this problem lies in the fact that, while automated digital systems tend towards categorizing the world into neat boxes, such as ‘acceptable’ and ‘unacceptable’ speech, language itself is fundamentally ambiguous.

Evolution of language, part one https://hubs.la/Q012gJlk0

Evolution of language, part one What, though, does it mean to be always-on for online speech? These systems don’t just need to oversee speech; they also need to adapt and learn in order to keep pace with the way which language (especially on the internet) is adapted and evolved.

If we’re going to make a prediction for the next year of content moderation trends, then, we should start where businesses should always start: by thinking about the user or customer, what they need and want, and how we can step up to meet those desires.

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All change: a quick look at content moderation’s big trends In the case of content moderation, for example, so many of the important recent changes have actually been impacts felt by the technology industry as a whole. Even as the world, on average, emerges from the other side of the pandemic, we’re seeing little pull-back from the spike in technology usag...

For brands, this is the time of year when the hard work put into creating good experiences to strengthen reputation really comes home. No one wants to be the brand to ruin Christmas or fall short at the critical moment. In online business, it should be the safety of the user, and not the profit for the platform, that comes first, putting user experience at the heart of their priorities to increase customer trust, acquisition and retention.
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How to not be the brand that ruins Christmas All marketplaces need to take precautions to prevent fraud on their platforms in the lead up to Christmas and onwards, keeping user experience front of mind. Larger marketplaces may see a smaller percentage of fraudulent posts, but considering that they have a much larger user base, even small perce...