Social Platform Trust & Safety
exploring the bounds of social platforms’ responsibility to keep the spaces safe
Social Platform Trust & Safety
Connective Posts: A New Approach to Political Conversations on Social Media
mediaengagement.org
The findings suggest that people can improve their online discussions by using this type of language in their posts. It also suggests social media platforms should optimize algorithms to surface these posts more often...Center for Media Engagement research offers a solution to this problem—encouraging the use of “connective language” online.3 Connective language expresses an openness to other perspectives and a humble approach to presenting one’s viewpoints.4 Examples of connective language include phrases such as “correct me if I’m wrong” or “this is just my opinion.”
Bonfire
bonfirenetworks.org
User research about ways to counter mininformation in social networks - from Bonfire
Probably fake - but shows how incomplete “verification” as a trust system is
Don't Feed the Trolls: Why This Old Internet Wisdom Still Matters - Nick's Blog
ngerakines.leaflet.pub
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.
Zuckerberg’s social-media-shaped public does not turn around Zuckerberg in the same way. But even so, Zuckerberg is reshaping the algorithms so that some aspects of the public - in particular hostility to immigration, to women and to sexual minorities - will likely come to the fore, while others will recede. The extent to which this reflects his... See more
Henry Farrell • We're Getting the Social Media Crisis Wrong
“The boundary between public and private is part of the conflict between public spheres. For example, until recently, only feminists though domestic violence was a public concern, rather than a private matter. Democratic publicity therefore requires positive guarantees of opportunities for minorities to convince others of what qualifies as common
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