ResearchBuzz: FirehoseScreen Rant: Iconic Horror Game Suddenly Banned From Google Play Store. “According to a BlueSky post by publisher Serenity Forge, 2021 visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club has been removed from the Google Play Store as of April 9, with Google citing sensitive content as the reason behind the ban. Players can no longer purchase or download the game from the storefront, although if they already […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/13/screen-rant-iconic-horror-game-suddenly-banned-from-google-play-store/
Reuters: China’s Huawei Co-Develops DeepSeek Model, Improves Censoring. “Chinese tech giant Huawei has co-developed a safety-focused version of artificial intelligence model DeepSeek that it said is ‘nearly 100% successful’ in preventing discussion of politically sensitive topics.”
SuperbloomWe’ve just published a Miro board illustrating the do’s and don’ts for visual storytelling in sensitive scenarios, from conflict and violence to privacy breaches and more. Inside, you’ll find content topics, tone, and pacing guidelines shaped by real community feedback. Want to make your design and visuals more inclusive? See our practical ideas on how to speak with—not at—your audience.
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Mashable: The unseen risks creators face when they get political. “For creators, silence can be strategic. Speaking out on politics can alienate followers, trigger harassment, and scare off brand deals that pay the bills. But silence carries its own cost: missing the engagement that comes with topical discourse, feeling complicit in injustice, or losing the trust of an audience. This is one of […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/16/mashable-the-unseen-risks-creators-face-when-they-get-political/
New York University: Ad blockers may be showing users more problematic ads, study finds. “Privacy-conscious users relying on ‘acceptable ads’ programs encounter 13.6% more problematic content than those without ad blockers, NYU Tandon researchers discover.”
Mashable: YouTube very quietly loosened its content moderation rules. “YouTube quietly loosened its video moderation rules a few weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as president a second time, reports the New York Times. The new rules encourage the site’s moderators not to remove videos that break YouTube’s code of conduct — which bans nudity, graphic violence, hate speech, and […]
Tech Xplore: Dark LLMs: It’s still easy to trick most AI chatbots into providing harmful information, study finds. “A group of AI researchers at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, in Israel, has found that despite efforts by large language model (LLM) makers, most commonly available chatbots are still easily tricked into generating harmful and sometimes illegal information.”
Digital Trends: Instagram investigation finds sexual content is served to Teen acounts. “According to an investigation by youth-focused non-profit, Design It For Us, and Accountable Tech, Instagram’s Teen guardrails aren’t delivering on their promise. Over a span of two weeks, five test accounts belonging to teens were tested, and all of them were shown sexual content despite Meta’s […]
BBC: Kids exposed to social media posts about violence and suicide. “A BBC investigation has found young teenagers are being exposed to content about weapons, bullying, murder and suicide soon after joining social media platforms. The project, which saw six fictional profiles set up as 13-15-year-olds, found they were shown the ‘worrying’ posts within just minutes of scrolling on TikTok and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/16/bbc-kids-exposed-to-social-media-posts-about-violence-and-suicide/