Like trainer, like bot? Inheritance of bias in algorithmic content moderation

A paper by Reuben Binns, Michael Veale, Max Van Kleek and Nigel Shadbolt, discussing automated content moderation, for example algorithms to identify content deemed offensive.

The authors discuss methodologies for content moderation and the problems that arise, for example bias in the classification of content.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.01477.pdf