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On this episode of Creative Control titled, “Why marginalized creators are feeling invisible online” Andrea (Annie) Brown discusses her research on inclusive content moderation, the launch of Reliabl, and shares what they are building in collaboration with users.
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"Even though Instagram supposedly allows for artistic representations of nudity, many users have observed that large accounts that promote the male gaze (i.e. Playboy, Kardashians) can get away with explicit nudity, while queer, non-white, and feminist creators are more likely to have their accounts hidden from non-followers," said Annie Brown, researcher at the University of California San Diego and founder of Reliabl, a content moderation service for social platforms and online communities.
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“Everyone is welcome,” says Brown, “but we center sex workers, BIPOC, LGBTQ folks, Indigenous peoples, and anti-racist activists.” At its core, Lips is an online community without the harassment, censorship, and plagiarism creators often experience on bigger, more mainstream platforms. The first month it was live, the social network gained 10,000 users without any advertising. Six months later, the user base doubled. “The positive reaction has really shown how needed this space is,” says Brown.
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“Bots can’t tell the difference between erotic art and pornography,” Brown said. “So now with Instagram [demoting] ‘suggestive’ content, they’re basically saying, ‘We don’t care if it’s art, we don’t care if it’s activism, we don’t care if it’s self-expression.’”
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Brown believes that one of the most impactful applications of blockchain could be its role in reducing the negative impact of technology (especially social media) on young women’s mental health.
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Instagram has removed posts that use hashtags like sex, sexy, lesbian, gay, bi, body love, body positive, and trans, so people have to find new ways to work around the algorithm: “That’s why you will oftentimes see accounts spelling out the term sex in various ways like ‘s3x’ or ‘seggs,’” Brown said.
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In February 2017, a former Uber engineer published a blog post about her experiences with sexual harassment at the company—and unwittingly started a movement. A year later, has the tech industry done anything to change the climate that Fowler described?
Lips Founder, Annie Brown speaks on the topic of cryptography and gender expression.