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> Jawboning: informal government efforts to persuade, cajole, or strong-arm private platforms to change their content-moderation policies.
by kubanczyk 3y ago
> Jawboning: informal government efforts to persuade, cajole, or strong-arm private platforms to change their content-moderation policies.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- drewcoo 3y agoI had to look the definition up, too. I still can't understand "implicit jawboning," though. That seems oxymoronic.
- D13Fd 3y agoThis article is kind of obnoxious in how it assumes reader knowledge about this term and that the term is well known.
- gnabgib 3y agoIt's defined twice in the article (the italic setup at the top, and footnote 1) - GP seems to by literally quoting (it's the same phrasing as the articles'). The article, however, does seem to be trying to redefine the meaning (Cambridge: "to talk to someone, especially to try to persuade them to do something", Merriam-Webster: "to speak forcefully and persuasively (to)")