Social Platform Trust & Safety
exploring the bounds of social platforms’ responsibility to keep the spaces safe
Social Platform Trust & Safety
Stop Expecting Tech Companies To Provide ‘Consequences’ For Criminal Behavior; That’s Not Their Job
techdirt.comStartups, Content Moderation, and Section 230 (2021)
static1.squarespace.comCosts of litigation for small scale social platforms
For synthetic media to reach millions of views—as the Swift images did in just hours—they need massive, aggregated networks, which allow them to identify an initial audience and then spread. As the amount of available content grows with the broader use of generative AI, social media’s role as curator will become even more important.
Nathaniel Lubin • What to Do About the Junkification of the Internet
For Tech Companies
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
ADL Center for Technology and Society • Hate Thy Neighbor: Online Hate in Local Communities
When All You Have is a Banhammer: The Social and Communicative Work of Volunteer Moderators
cmsw.mit.edu
It feels like the fundamental problem in massive social networks is that software scales, but moderation doesn’t really.
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
Generative AI for Pro-Democracy Platforms
mit-genai.pubpub.org
