Social Platform Trust & Safety
exploring the bounds of social platforms’ responsibility to keep the spaces safe
Social Platform Trust & Safety
We tend to think of the problem of social media as a problem of disinformation - that is, of people receiving erroneous information and being convinced that false things are in fact true. Hence, we can try to make social media better through factchecking, through educating people to see falsehoods and similar. This is, indeed, a problem, but it is... See more
Henry Farrell • We're Getting the Social Media Crisis Wrong
Costs of litigation for small scale social platforms
User research about ways to counter mininformation in social networks - from Bonfire
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.
Collaborative google doc w research studies on social platforms’ impact
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.
Facebook Groups also allow moderators to remain anonymous, despite the platform otherwise requiring “real names.” While anonymity is not a panacea for harassment—many harassers in our study used their real names—it makes it possible for public figures to evade responsibility for engaging in hate or harassment.
Hate Thy Neighbor: Online Hate in Local Communities
Hi all,
With major elections happening across the globe this year, we wanted to ensure you are aware of moderation resources that can be very useful during surges in traffic to your community.
First, we have the following mod resources available to you:
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reddit.comtown square that spans the entire globe. Our aim, then, is to show a way past this impasse. The two views ar