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Humour as an online safety issue: Exploring solutions to help platforms better address this form of expression

Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Queensland University of Technology
Louisa Bartolo, Queensland University of Technology
Luke Troynar, Queensland University of Technology
PUBLISHED ON: 25 Jan 2023 DOI: 10.14763/2023.1.1677

The policies and content moderation practices of social media companies are not well equipped to recognise how and when humour harms. All too-often, therefore, platforms take down important harmless humour while they fail to effectively moderate humour that sows division and hate.