The Dangers of Crowdsourcing Content Moderation
Crowdsourcing has been around for hundreds of years, but the actual term crowdsourcing was coined by Jeff Howe in 2006, who referred to it as “the act of a company or institution taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people in the form of an open call.” Since then the field of crowdsourcing has grown significantly.Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and moreWith the rise of the internet, social media, and user-generated content, the need for content moderation has never been greater. And neither have the challenges...