20 April 2020
"Government, Company Restrictions Imperil Open Access to Human Rights Information (...)"
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"Private companies are also making decisions that will likely limit access to human rights material. Last month, the major social media platforms put thousands of third-party content moderators on paid leave, saying they could not perform their sensitive work remotely."
"In their place, untested and opaque artificial intelligence technologies now have an outsized role in determining what content stays online and what gets removed, and users have a drastically reduced ability to appeal decisions."
Protecting Digital Research Even More Crucial During Covid-19 (HRW, link)
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