Social Platform Trust & Safety
exploring the bounds of social platforms’ responsibility to keep the spaces safe
Social Platform Trust & Safety
What’s Right and What’s Wrong with Optimizing for Engagement
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
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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
“The American public should know that content that they read online — especially on social media — could be foreign propaganda, even if it appears to be coming from fellow Americans or originating in the United States“
—@ODNIgov Official
Jackie Singhx.comWe all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not... See more
Neil Turkewitz • There is no internet freedom without responsibility – Content Cafe Australia
Without trust in the decision-maker, trust in the process breaks down, and the only important question becomes, “Who decides?”