[Air-L] New CDT research report - Moderating Maghrebi Arabic Content on Social Media

[Dhanaraj Thakur]

Hi everyone,

We are delighted to announce the publication of our latest CDT research 
report, "Moderating Maghrebi Arabic Content on Social Media: Challenges 
and Implications 
<https://cdt.org/insights/moderating-maghrebi-arabic-content-on-social-media/>". 
This report investigates the significant challenges for moderating 
Magrabi Arabic content on social media platforms, a topic critically 
under-examined in current literature. This report is part of a research 
series by CDT on the challenges of moderating low-resource languages in 
the Global South.

Using a mixed-method approach involving interviews, focus groups, and 
online surveys, our study found that many social media companies employ 
a global content moderation strategy, whereas others adopt a localized 
approach tailored to regional cultural contexts. Additionally, Maghrebi 
Arabic users often resort to tactics like "algospeak" to evade 
moderation algorithms, driven by concerns over perceived political 
censorship. They also rely on mass reporting due to ineffective 
reporting mechanisms. Also, we found that the lack of diversity in 
natural language processing teams and inadequate training datasets for 
Maghrebi Arabic dialects significantly impact the accuracy of automated 
content moderation systems.

You can access the full report here 
<https://cdt.org/insights/moderating-maghrebi-arabic-content-on-social-media/> 
for more detailed insights.

We invite you to read and share this report within your networks.


take care,

Dhanaraj


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*Dhanaraj Thakur* (he/him) | Research Director
Center for Democracy & Technology |*cdt.org <https://cdt.org/>*
**dthakur at cdt.org | **+1 202 407 8849