Online toxicity: a question of multitude, not network
Blue Sky publishes an alarming report on the dizzying increase in flagging in its latest moderation report. Yet the social network claims to be a haven of peace next to X. The 2024 moderation report published by Blue Sky highlights an inescapable phenomenon in the world of social networks: the exponential increase in reports of toxic content, a situation that seems to… have more to do with the size of users than with the network itself. Reports submitted to moderators have increased 17-fold in one year, from 358,000 in 2023 to 6.48 million in 2024 on the Blue Sky platform! This increase is mainly due to the massive influx of users and the multiplication of content reported, whether for harassment, trolling, spam or disinformation… Ironically, many users announced they were…