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How “content moderation” trended on Hacker News

“Content moderation” was mentioned 16,361 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2021 with 840 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “content moderation” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “content moderation”

1. 1.You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation 834 points · 406 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Moderators of HN: please stop changing post titles 572 points · 46 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Open Letter from Facebook Content Moderators 363 points · 206 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
4. 4.“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints” 358 points · 971 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation' 260 points · 101 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Ask HN: How do I keep child porn out of my site? 252 points · 186 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Behind TikTok's boom: A legion of traumatized, $10-a-day content moderators 237 points · 262 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators 218 points · 256 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Three months of content moderation for Facebook in Berlin 193 points · 200 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Show HN: Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with transparent moderation 180 points · 185 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Is content moderation a dead end? 154 points · 296 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
12. 12.A Facebook content moderator’s resignation note 150 points · 92 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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