Social Platform Trust & Safety
exploring the bounds of social platforms’ responsibility to keep the spaces safe
Social Platform Trust & Safety
Bystanders of Online Moderation: Examining the Effects of Witnessing Post-Removal Explanations
shagunjhaver.combystanders of online moderation - exploring impact of showing other people reasons for why certain content was removed
it's a mistake to think there's some perfect institutional design out there that's going to create the just world that we want. Whatever institutional design you have, humans are humans, and humans are going to strategically manipulate those institutions to try to achieve their ends. And there are going to be inequalities, power disparities, and... See more
Erdogan gov't pushes people to use 'Next' app as Turkey moves ...
nordicmonitor.com
Turkish national social media platform. Re: Government control of social media - it’s not enough to be “publicly” owned if the values of transparency, algorithmic choice, etc aren’t there.
In a world where AI agents are running wild, will we see a new wave of online social spaces that are “human only” - or at least “human verified”?
What are the tradeoffs between Government ID vs. “Selfie verification” (Bumble-style) vs. organizations acting as verifiers (Bluesky-style) vs. peer-to-peer “vouch for humanity” (lobste.rs-style) vs.
Instead of asking whether or not a platform optimizes for engagement, it can be more helpful to ask how explicit or implicit these engagement signals are, and provide users with more controls to allow them to tweak their online experience.
What’s Right and What’s Wrong with Optimizing for Engagement
medium.com
If this is all downstream of a small and relatively well-off group of high frequency posters (some of our elected officials among them), that would suggest what we might call an ‘elite radicalization’ theory of online politics. The idea is that social media has empowered a (relatively) small group of political influencers who, in response to the... See more
Jay Van Bavel, PhD (@jayvanbavel.bsky.social)
bsky.app
If we want to protect the rights of real people, it should be much harder to take away someone’s account and online property. But that only works if we have a way to know which accounts belong to a real and specific human with an authentic connection to the community. That implies more stringent validation requirements to get and keep an account.