Mona Elswah

Content Moderation in the Global South: Four Low-Resource Languages

Synthesizes four case studies showing platforms overwhelmingly invest in English-language moderation, leaving low-resource-language speakers under-protected and subject to both over- and under-enforcement.

Moderating Tamil Content on Social Media

Content policies are unevenly defined and enforced for Tamil speakers; automated moderation and Trust & Safety resourcing lag far behind English.

Moderating Kiswahili Content on Social Media

Kiswahili moderation suffers from limited language investment, sparse local context, and weak automated-system performance, harming users across East/Central Africa.

Moderating Maghrebi Arabic Content on Social Media

Maghrebi Arabic is frequently mis-moderated, with both wrongful takedowns and failure to catch harmful content, driven by under-investment and ill-suited automated systems.