Reading Like a Computer: A Semantic Guide to Facebook's Content Moderation Policies

Angie Waller

• Other Authors Unknown Unknowns (Author)
• Title

  Reading Like a Computer: A Semantic Guide to Facebook's Content Moderation Policies

• Date 2018
• Publisher New York, NY: Unknown Unknowns
• Description 14 p.; 28 cm
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room
• Summary

  The contents of Reading Like a Computer are from leaked PowerPoint slides used to train Facebook content moderators. The contents have not been embellished or editorialized. By organizing and graphically presenting the subtle discrepancies between what Facebook allows and doesn’t allow in a post, the book highlights the contradictions and challenging logic of Facebook's community standards.

• Tags Technology, Social media, Cultural policy, Surveillance, MoMA Reading Room, MoMA Reading Room 1