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The "25 ways" were buried in a linked PDF (https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/65717082/the-smsmit-report https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/65717082/the
by jot 5y ago
The "25 ways" were buried in a linked PDF (https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/65717082/the-smsmit-report https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/65717082/the-smsmit-r...).
Here they are:
1) Hold platforms accountable for designs that amplify lies.
2) Focus on and shut down prolific disinformation networks.
3) Use content interventions to nudge people toward awareness of falsity and accuracy.
4) Use accuracy nudges to crowdsource falsity labels so that algorithms can be trained to automatically identify lies.
5) Give researchers access to more data, using technologies such as differential privacy and institutional mechanisms, like data safe harbors.
6) Offer platforms incentives, like legal immunity, to share more data with researchers.
7) Create independent panels to oversee research funding by platforms.
8) Require robust legislative remedies to anticompetitive platform practices.
9) Create collaborative global institutions where discussions about governance can take place.FTC or FCC—to vet compliance with guidelines.
10) Establish independent U.S. statutory bodies—not the FTC or FCC—to vet compliance with guidelines.
11) Offer platforms ‘earned immunity’ from civil liability, e.g. under Section 230, if they comply with content moderation regulations.
12) Break up big companies, starting with Facebook.
13) Legislate interoperability as well as social network and data portability.
14) Emulate EU proposals for stricter anti-competitive penalties to deter corporate misbehavior.
15) Create programmability with the major platforms to encourage innovation.
16) Diversify the engineering core to include social scientists, cognitive scientists, and people trained in different types of histories.
17) Create ethics certification programs and degrees for AI designers.
18) Embrace friction to reduce the automatic nature of information diffusion and interactions with AI.
19) Regulate platforms for product safety; hold designers and companies accountable for the products they design and deploy.
20) Develop new business models including subscription and freemium models.
21) Tie consequences of legal violations directly to corporate executives, not just their companies.
22) Strengthen regulations by adding taxes, such as programmatic media taxes, to deter algorithmic amplification.
23) Ensure that users consent to data use; protect data privacy.
24) Distinguish between speech and reach--the right to speech and the right to amplification of that speech.
25) Limit corporate lobbying; enforce stricter campaign finance rules.
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 5y agoWhat do they define as lie and disinformation? And how is this mechanism going to remain impartial if it's going to be enforced by the government?
- brigandish 5y agoYou’d be surprised how easy it is to detect lies. Ask most people (and no doubt the authors of this are included) and they’ll tell you “they’re told by my political opponents and those who disagree with me”.
- phone8675309 5y agoThe following will never happen (or be corrupted at inception) because social media is a tool of the capital and political classes for spreading their propaganda: > 2) Focus on and shut down prolific disinformation networks > 4) Use accuracy nudges to crowdsource falsity labels so that algorithms can be trained to automatically identify lies. > 21) Tie consequences of legal violations directly to corporate executives, not just their companies. > 22) Strengthen regulations by adding taxes, such as programmatic media taxes, to deter algorithmic amplification. > 23) Ensure that users consent to data use; protect data privacy. > 24) Distinguish between speech and reach--the right to speech and the right to amplification of that speech. > 25) Limit corporate lobbying; enforce stricter campaign finance rules.
- skinkestek 5y agoThe first 10 or so sounds extremely dangerous!
- ergot_vacation 5y agoTwo very different groups hate social media for two very different reasons. Ordinary internet users hate it because it represents a serious loss of autonomy for them, and a degradation of service. It makes the internet less free than it used to be. The wealthy and powerful (and those who love brown-nosing them) hate social media because it's STILL TOO FREE. There's way, way too much information there that threatens their vice-grip on the world, and it has to go. NOW.