Social Platform Trust & Safety
exploring the bounds of social platforms’ responsibility to keep the spaces safe
Social Platform Trust & Safety
Musubi - Moderation Supercharged
musubilabs.ai
Threat Model
github.com
from the chat app Quiet (https://tryquiet.org/) - good example of a “threat model” for a communications/social platform
But I don’t think platform companies should—or can—act as the governance layer of our online lives. In this, I share tech journalist and Bluesky board member Mike Masnick’s informed belief that global centralized moderation is a dead end. And if centralized moderation isn’t a plausible way forward, then experimentation toward genuinely... See more
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