Social Platform Trust & Safety
exploring the bounds of social platforms’ responsibility to keep the spaces safe
Social Platform Trust & Safety
First, identity authentication can ensure that everyone on the platform is a human entitled to join the platform...no bots, and maybe no commercial companies. It used to be that knowing someone’s identity was necessary to ensure that they had rights to participate. But much of the toxicity of current social media interactions is about identities as... See more
Alex Pentland • Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation — Digitalist Papers
Generative AI for Pro-Democracy Platforms
mit-genai.pubpub.org
boo-liet shen 👻 (@julietshen.xyz)
bsky.app
For example, in one experiment, Stroud found that when comment sections on news sites replaced the “like” button with a “respect” button, users engaged with the content and each other in a less partisan way. In a few cases, the “respect” button led people to be more willing to click on comments expressing politics that differed from their own.
Do ppl trust fact checking orgs?
Duco+TnS+MRR-+FINAL
A comprehensive report highlighting the importance of investment in the trust and safety industry, emphasizing its growth potential, corporate benefits, and role in fostering safer online environments amidst emerging technologies.
LinkDuco Trust & Safety Market Research Report (Katie Harbath)
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 wo... See more
A scholarly culture that reads and discusses enduringly great works incentivizes the production of such wo... See more
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
reputation / karma systems