Social Platform Trust & Safety
exploring the bounds of social platforms’ responsibility to keep the spaces safe
Social Platform Trust & Safety
Incentives for productive speech: A speech community is likely to produce whatever kind of discourse it incentivizes. This means that users should have formal or informal incentives to produce speech that is recognized by other users as worthy.
A scholarly culture that reads and discusses enduringly great works incentivizes the production of such... See more
A scholarly culture that reads and discusses enduringly great works incentivizes the production of such... See more
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
reputation / karma systems
julia kamin (@juliakamin.bsky.social)
bsky.app
Collaborative google doc w research studies on social platforms’ impact
Proactive Solutions to Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
New Report Calls for Proactive Solutions to Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence — Integrity Institute
Proactive Solutions to Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence - A report from the Integrity Institute and the Council on Technology & Social Cohesion
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.
But how do you monitor or take responsibility for what everyone says anywhere all the time? Well, you don’t. You can’t. Providing everyone with bandwidth and software keeps expense growth arithmetic. But if you try to exert any control over how it’s used then expenses become exponential too. It’s impossible to do within the business model.... See more
The Economics That Define Social Media
Max Weber introduced a three-fold typology of legitimacy, the sentiments that get people to acquiesce to authority, especially regarding rules or commands they may dislike or disagree with.[viii] For most of human history, the most common kinds of authority have been traditional or charismatic. Traditional authority appeals to the “eternal... See more
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
3 ways that rules have “legitimacy” - Traditional authority, charismatic authority, and legal validity / objective rationality
Don't Feed the Trolls: Why This Old Internet Wisdom Still Matters - Nick's Blog
ngerakines.leaflet.pub
The resulting problems are not primarily problems of disinformation, though disinformation plays some role. They are the problems you get when large swathes of the public sphere are exclusively owned by wannabe God-Emperors. Elon Musk owns X/Twitter outright. Mark Zuckerberg controls Meta through a system in which he is CEO, chairman and effective... See more
Henry Farrell • We're Getting the Social Media Crisis Wrong
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Close anonymity loopholes . Facebook Groups and Pages can be created without linking to a specific Facebook user; only an email address is necessary. Admins can post to their groups under the Group or Page name, effectively allowing anonymous, or at least, pseudonymous, posts. Ending anonymity will not end harassment; in some... See more
Close anonymity loopholes . Facebook Groups and Pages can be created without linking to a specific Facebook user; only an email address is necessary. Admins can post to their groups under the Group or Page name, effectively allowing anonymous, or at least, pseudonymous, posts. Ending anonymity will not end harassment; in some... See more