PluRule: A Benchmark for Moderating Pluralistic Communities on Social Media
Social media are shifting towards pluralism -- community-governed platforms where groups define their own norms. What violates rules in one community may be perfectly acceptable in another. Can AI models help moderate such pluralistic communities? We formalize the task as a multiple-choice problem, mirroring how human moderators operate in the real world: given a comment and its surrounding context, identify which specific rule, if any, is violated. We introduce PluRule, a multimodal, multilingual benchmark for detecting 13,371 rule violations across 1,989 Reddit communities spanning 2,885 rules in 9 languages. Using this benchmark, we show that state-of-the-art vision-language models str...
| Authors | Zoher Kachwala, Bao Tran Truong, Rasika Muralidharan et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 16 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 16 May 2026 |
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