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L.S. Toy transforms economics, legality, currency, and surveillance into system-driven conceptual art built for a tech-structured world.
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L.S. Toy is a London-based conceptual artist who merges economics, legality, currency systems, and conflict architecture into procedural artworks. With a dual background in Economics (LSE) and Fine Art (RCA), he builds projects that function like financial instruments, legal artifacts, or system-level documents. Operating outside traditional galleries—often in warehouses—Toy challenges how value, legitimacy, and power are constructed in a tech-driven world. His art behaves less like painting and more like system engineering.

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Shifting societal norms, technological advances, and the chaos of world events mean we may never reach an equilibrium where content moderation is solved.
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To moderate billions of posts, many social media platforms first compress posts into bite-sized pieces of text that algorithms can process quickly. These compact blurbs, called “hashes,” look like a short combination of letters and numbers, but one hash can represent a user’s entire post.

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In our experiments, we posted comments designed to violate Instagram policies on spam and bullying to our test accounts to trigger deletions and review requests
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In comments to us, Lever, Meta’s spokesperson, said that the platform has indeed experienced a rise in reported content since the beginning of the Israel–Hamas war, implying that it has created an especially challenging environment for content moderation. Instagram is clearly trying to adapt; it has changed its processes multiple times in response to users’ reactions to how it’s treating the war on the platform