At GitHub, we’re committed to keeping our community informed about how we govern our platform. That means being transparent about content moderation and involving users in the development of our site policies. Today we’re announcing that our Transparency Center and repo have been updated with data for all of 2024.
Our developer-first approach to content moderation is adapted to the unique environment of code collaboration and has evolved to meet specific needs through a suite of content moderation tools. We’ve discussed the nuances and challenges of moderating a code collaboration platform in the Journal of Online Trust and Safety in an effort to be transparent about our own practices and contribute to the research base of platform studies.
We want to bring this discussion directly to the developers that make GitHub what it is. Recently, we attended FOSDEM, Europe’s largest free and open source developer conference. We connected with developers and presented a deep dive into how our approach to platform moderation has been informed by the values of the FOSS community. You can watch the video of the talk here. We’ll also be presenting this talk on March 8 at SCaLE 22x, the 22nd Annual Southern California Linux Expo in Pasadena, CA. We don’t want to just share our own work—we want to hear directly from developers and maintainers about the challenges you’re facing.
Developers are an important stakeholder in how we moderate our platform, and we want to hear from you. Check out our site-policy repo to contribute constructive ideas, questions, and feedback to make our policies better. We also welcome participation in our developer-policy repo where you can share public policy opportunities and challenges to advance developers’ rights to innovation, collaboration, and equal opportunity.
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