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Why content moderators should be key workers

Posted on April 15, 2020May 3, 2020 by Josh Cowls

In a new blog on the Alan Turing Institute website, myself, Bertie Vidgen and Helen Margetts explain how the COVID-19 crisis has exposed the importance of social media, and argue for the protection of workers involved as content moderation as key workers.

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