‘The Inevitable Life Cycle’ of Platforms Like Facebook and Pornhub

‘If you’re going to have users generating content, you’re going to have users generating harmful content’

Damon Beres
OneZero
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2 min readDec 8, 2020

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Facebook profile images collected at the 2015 Big Bang Data exhibition in London. Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images for Somerset House

Last week, Evelyn Douek, a Harvard lecturer who studies online speech, spoke to OneZero’s Will Oremus about a rising tide of moderation controversies across platforms as diverse…

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Damon Beres
OneZero

Co-Founder and Former Editor in Chief, OneZero at Medium