Lost in Translation: How Content Moderation Fails Tamil Speakers Online

By Prithvi Yver 

Technology platforms moderate content in many languages. In general, platforms under resource moderation outside of English and other major languages. Tech Policy Press has previously covered the difficulty of content moderation for low-resource languages, which disproportionately affects users in the Global Majority.

Building on this body of work, CDT’s Aliya Bhatia and Mona Eswah examine the case of Tamil, a language spoken by over 80 million people, constituting 1% of the global population. Despite its linguistic prevalence in South Asia and diaspora communities worldwide, Tamil is a “low-resource language,” which means there is insufficient high-quality data available to develop robust automated systems for content moderation.

Technology companies must prioritize collaborations rather than promote a universalist approach to content moderation that may be insensitive to local realities. Lastly, the report cautions against the broad use of automated technology for content moderation, especially for languages like Tamil. 

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