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Millions of images and videos are uploaded to the internet each day, yet we rarely see shocking and disturbing content in our social media feeds. Who's keeping the internet "clean" for us? In this eye-opening talk, documentarians Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck take us inside the shadowy world of online content moderators -- the people contract...
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Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck: The price of a clean internet | Hans Block & Moritz Riesewieck | TEDxCERN
With over 2 billion people using Facebook world-wide and several millions uploading content on Instagram, YouTube and other social media, we could potentially expect a lot of horrible content to be spread around. However, in reality, we actually see dangerous or ugly content only very rarely in our feeds. How come? Who cleans our information ch...