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Microsoft released its newest and fourth Xbox Transparency Report, providing details on how it is combating harassment conduct and content on its gaming platform.

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Even with increasingly effective moderation tools, the sheer scope of player content and communication is expanding every day, and online discourse has never been more heated. In this GamesBeat Next panel, Hank Howie, game industry evangelist at Modulate was joined by Alexis Miller, director of product management at Schell Games and Tomer Poran, VP solution strategy at ActiveFence, to talk about best practices for moderating game communities of all sizes and demographics, from codes of conduct to strategy, technology and more.

Voice moderation is a sensitive issue. Players expect privacy, but long gone are the halcyon days of early, friendly online gaming. Today, when players interact with strangers in online games it can all too often lead to toxic behaviour. Striking the balance between player privacy and safety for online communities is the challenge facing games studios today.

Roblox has acquired Speechly, a Finnish AI start-up specialising in voice moderation technology, for an undisclosed amount.

Two years after announcing voice chat was coming to Roblox, the gaming company has acquired a voice tech startup, Speechly, offering voice chat moderation, real-time transcription and Voice API that lets companies add AI voice technology and voice interfaces to their products and experiences.

Elon Musk doesn’t want to talk about how X moderates content on the site so much that he’s suing the state of California over it.

Elon Musk's X Corp.on Friday sued the state of California over a law requiring social media companies to publicly post their policies regarding hate speech, disinformation, harassment and extremism.

A few hours ago, Activision announced the next step in its fight to combat online toxicity in the Call of Duty franchise with the North American rollout of an AI-powered real-time voice chat moderation tool.

Activision is turning to AI to help it moderate voice chat in Call of Duty games.

Activision has begun testing a new AI-powered voice chat moderation system for Call of Duty games.

Activision has announced that it will be implementing new real-time voice moderation systems to Call of Duty's online experience in the run-up to Modern Warfare 3.

Activision is rolling out in-game voice chat moderation in Call of Duty.

Activision has announced new measures to combat toxicity within Call of Duty, confirming it'll be introducing what it calls «global real-time voice chat moderation» alongside the launch of Modern Warfare 3 on 10th November, with a US beta trial of the feature starting today.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 launches with in-game voice chat moderation powered by AI.

CVP of Xbox Player Services David McCarthy has posted on Xbox Wire about the new moderation system the company has put in place.

Gaming moderation platform GGWP has raised $10 million in funding towards its AI tools.