The platform also gives participants a sample of comments to agree or disagree with. Unlike other platforms, users cannot reply to other users’ comments, making it difficult to engage in trolling. The process of looking at a range of comments made by others for upvoting and downvoting exposes people to others’ opinions, which has been shown to... See more

platforms should provide:

1. Social provenance transparency : Label which communities are engaging with content. For instance, a viral post could display whether it resonates across diverse groups ( shared ground ) or primarily within a specific niche ( different perspectives ).


2. Community-driven curation : Empower communities to promote content they

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Second, we must move beyond thinking of platform content moderation policies as “the solution” and prioritize rethinking design. Policy establishes guardrails and provides justification to disrupt certain information cascades, but does so reactively and, presently, based on the message substance. Although policy shapes propagation, it does so by

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