Will Hobbs

The Effects and Non-Effects of Social Sanctions from User Jury-Based Content Moderation Decisions on Weibo

Between 2012 and 2014, Weibo used a novel crowdsourced user `committee' system to make content moderation decisions. In it, user volunteers were randomly assigned to jury-like committees to vote and comment on whether reported content violated platform rules. The perceived legitimacy of similar systems has been studie…