as in chairpersons
a person in charge of a meeting
the moderator should make sure that everyone gets a chance to speak
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Recent Examples of moderators
And while Chinese authorities set the censorship rules, their enforcement is generally left to the platforms, which often employ sizeable teams of moderators to remove content that violates the guidelines.
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Eric Cheung, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
According to The Intercept, which also obtained the materials, the document provides a summary of the new rules and uses examples to show moderators how to apply them.
—James Factora, Them, 10 Jan. 2025
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will move its content moderators from California to Texas as part of a plan to end its third-party fact-checking program.
—Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
Separate from its fact-checking program, Meta employs content moderators who review posts for violations of the company’s rules against hateful conduct, child exploitation and other offenses.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
The decisions to move away from strict rules about what is allowed on the sites and employing thousands of content moderators to police them follows yearslong complaints from Republicans that social media companies effectively censored conservative voices.
—Kate Conger, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
The moderators guided the discussion through key topics such as organizational collaboration, youth engagement, skill development, and technological advancements.
—Sukanya S. Meher, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Jan. 2025
The forum's moderators corroborated the claim by stating that they were sent evidence of the user's possession of the hardware.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
Many of the features mirror Reddit, like a count of how many members are online, moderators, and community guidelines.
—Mia Sato, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2024
Eric Cheung, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
According to The Intercept, which also obtained the materials, the document provides a summary of the new rules and uses examples to show moderators how to apply them.
—James Factora, Them, 10 Jan. 2025
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will move its content moderators from California to Texas as part of a plan to end its third-party fact-checking program.
—Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
Separate from its fact-checking program, Meta employs content moderators who review posts for violations of the company’s rules against hateful conduct, child exploitation and other offenses.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
The decisions to move away from strict rules about what is allowed on the sites and employing thousands of content moderators to police them follows yearslong complaints from Republicans that social media companies effectively censored conservative voices.
—Kate Conger, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
The moderators guided the discussion through key topics such as organizational collaboration, youth engagement, skill development, and technological advancements.
—Sukanya S. Meher, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Jan. 2025
The forum's moderators corroborated the claim by stating that they were sent evidence of the user's possession of the hardware.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
Many of the features mirror Reddit, like a count of how many members are online, moderators, and community guidelines.
—Mia Sato, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Moderators.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moderators. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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