Comment Moderation Charter [Charte de modération des commentaires]

Name of code

Comment Moderation Charter [Charte de modération des commentaires]

Originator of code

AGEFI

Country

Switzerland

Original language

French

Year of creation

N/A

Type of code

Media users

Main frame of accountability

Market

Transparency

Public

Legal and regulatory context

Non-mandatory

Implementation and enforcement

Voluntary

Diversity

No

AI/automation

No

Abstract

The Comment Moderation Charter issued by AGEFI sets Guidelines for users commenting on AGEFI’s website and comment space. The Charter sets out four rules for enhancing dialogue: (i) avoiding defamatory statements, insults and hate speech; (ii) comments must be relevant to the topic; (iii) avoiding spam messages and (iv) limiting the use of capital (upper case) letters as other users may view them as being aggressive.

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