New paper from our lab on reporting systems! arxiv.org/abs/2306.10478 Have you ever tried to report something on social media? What do you think gets shared and who do you think sees the report? We seek to understand what ppl *think actually happens* when they report something. 1/n
User reporting is an essential component of content moderation on many online platforms -- in particular, on end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging platforms where platform operators cannot...
From there, we learned what are ppl's privacy concerns regarding the info they think is being shared. Our focus was E2EE apps, like WhatsApp, Signal, etc, as reporting is even more important in those settings and ppl have heightened privacy needs, but we think our findings and ideas generalize. 2/n