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Just finished Speech Police by @davidakaye. Many great insights to help understand content moderation of social media in the face of misinformation. A central theme is to involve users more – to create more transparency and education 1/5
He notes @kixes, a Singaporean journalist, rejects tighter government control, instead prescribing media literacy programming to build social resilience. Indeed, users need tools to help evaluate the news appearing in their feeds. 2/5
In light of past failures, (FB augmenting Russian misinformation prior to 2016 election) it should fund marketing campaigns to educate consumers – to help to ferret out bots and stories devoid of fact. One model is instructive 3/5
In 1998, after decades of lies re: tobacco and adverse health, Big Tobacco signed a settlement forcing them to create a foundation to educate kids about smoking. It’s called @truthinitiative and produced ads like this 4/5
FB should do the same, give users the tools to assess sources, PSAs to evaluate posts, trace URLs, identify new/fake users, contextualize content – independently. @Klonick @zeynep 5/5
