#informed22 — Public Fediverse posts

"The online sphere and social media have allowed for the amplification and reach of conspiracy-oriented content in a way that we've never seen before," says @[email protected] about why research on online conspiracy is so important at
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Thought I’d go ahead and drop a link to this piece I wrote for Knight last year on why folks who are concerned about socio-technical systems, platforms, and social media should put games on their radar: https://knightfoundation.org/games-matter/ #Informed22

#informed22 Tim Wu on how market concentration affects livelihoods: If your job depends on one single employer... Think about a nurse in a small town where hospitals consolidate. What are they're going to do? You could define lack of freedom as having no answer to that question.

Last panel of #informed22 with @pluralistic & HW's Tim Wu.
Tim Wu: What democratic institutions don't deliver, people become cinical. This is the real danger. People start wondering who is going to be the strong man coming to fix this for us. (Paraphrasing).

Chris Riley raises the issue if the challenges of studying multiple spaces and raises it as something that has to be tackled and again I’m “yes and” in that many of us have been doing this for decades 😉 #Informed22

I appreciate Dean Freelon calling for social scientists to start paying attention to platforms other than Twitter but it’s critical to note there are folks already doing this and it would have been a nice gesture to nod to them. #Informed22

“How can we have a democracy and say we’re going to protect all these human rights except your data.”

Frank McCourt, Founder of Project Liberty, in conversation Can Fixing the Internet Save Democracy? #Informed22

More great panels today and yesterday at #Informed22

Some of the great panels today and yesterday at #Informed22

At #informed22, hosted by the Knight Foundation, with Kara Swisher & Yoel Roth, fomer head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. What is the one line that you would not cross for a boss? "I would not lie for him," said Yoel. His resignation from TW happened without drama — no severance & no NDA. (Such a difference when there's no NDA over your head and you can speak freely).

Can tell this will be a hard session to comment on along the way. Super interesting and kicks off with Yoel Roth saying “procedural legitimacy” is one of the key underpining structures of trust and safety work #Informed22

Really astute point from an audience member that conservatives weren’t up in arms about anti-trust and content moderation in tech companies when it was marginalized folks who were targeted (for example naming and drag queens, indigenous people, trans folks etc.). It was when /conservatives/ got hit by policy that they started caring. #Informed22

“There’s no such thing as free speech without safety...What are some of the things that a social media platform could and should be doing?” @[email protected] #Informed22

“What we need to do is give people the feeling that things can be better so we can also talk about democratization…at the end of the day a lot of these safety content problems are content moderation problems.” @[email protected] #Informed22

“We’ve now seen a very powerful and very politicized movement upset with social media for steps taken to address civil rights violations on their platforms.” @[email protected] #Informed22

“I’m trying to understand, did the guardrails hold? What did the researchers want to do & what did they end up doing?” @[email protected] on figuring out how to work w/ a tech or social media company in order to use this project as a model for the future. #Informed22

“We wanted people to trust the results so we made a big plea in the beginning of this process that our goal is to not release the results from any of the studies until the studies are through the peer-review process.” @[email protected] #Informed22

“What’s so exciting about this is not just the level of rigor & depth we’re going to get w/ some very important questions around the election…but the potential of creating an entirely new model that we can use in the data sharing & transparency space.” @[email protected] #Informed22

“I was never taught how to talk to the community and I think that’s really needed.” @[email protected] #Informed22

Related: Our @[email protected] funded work on communicating science across political divides: https://bit.ly/CMECommunicatingScience

“People don’t necessarily always want certainty, they want judgment. And they want judgment from someone they trust…It turns out that all the people are facing are questions that I face. What I have tried to do is use those stories to explain the data.” @[email protected] #Informed22

“I do think one of the critical things that we’ve learned is to not be dismissive of those concerns… Countering misinformation is about longer-term engagement and building trust.” @[email protected] #Informed22

“The lessons that I’ve learned is that we just need to talk to people, to enter spaces with humility, to listen, to learn how to translate our science into English so people can understand it and make evidence-based decisions.” @[email protected] #Informed22

“There are well-crafted, very deliberate misinformation spreading events…the notion that that could be purposely created to poison the information ecosystem was something that those of us in public health had no idea about.” @[email protected] on the #infodemic #Informed22

This is one of the sites mentioned to assist whistleblowers: https://thesignalsnetwork.org/ #Informed22

“The story is about people dying in countries where Facebook is the internet… I did what I did because I knew if I didn’t…and those people died, that I would never be able to forgive myself.”

Whistleblower @[email protected] discusses #FacebookFiles at #Informed22