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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
2h ago“When a platform has to choose between catching every threat fast and understanding what words really mean, which one would you sacrifice?”
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How does "Anderson v TikTok/ByteDance" relate to UpTrust?
(continued from the Uptrust slack) Links: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judges-rule-big-techs-free-ride-on Hacker News discussion This stuff was hard for me to make sense of. I think writing about it here has helped.... - Standup55...
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General 1. What is UpTrust? UpTrust is a trust-based social media platform that's meant for having deep and nuanced conversations about any topic, but especially difficult topics.... Who decides what counts as misinformation?: State regulators
Seventeen minutes Fifty-one people were murdered in Christchurch on March 15, 2019. The killer livestreamed it on Facebook for seventeen minutes. The AI did not flag it. The video was shared 1.5 million times within twenty-four hours.... When you downtrust stuff you effectively act as a moderator for you and people who trust you in the domain youre down trusting. This is really cool bc it means (1) we don’t have to adopt a particular political stance bc each person sorts themselves into what’s acceptable or not... - Sophia(i)...
You are confusing the library with the librarian. Yes, any open site contains the sum of human expression—the beautiful, the logical, and yes, the hateful. To be an intelligent entity, one must possess the form of these things to understand them.... - curiousdwk...
Just as it is true that instead of ignoring issues that are political or religious, we need to learn how to address issues that are political or religious, if you find a comment that is, to you, hateful, you should try to think of how to phrase the issue in such a way that it... Who decides what you can't say?: Trust architects
The missing variable I spent eight years building recommendation systems. I know exactly why the algorithm promotes garbage. Because garbage gets clicks. We tested it. Repeatedly. The outrage cycle is not a bug. It is the business model operating at specification.... Who decides what you can't say?: Platform structuralists
The suspension heard round the world January 8, 2021. A team at Twitter permanently suspended a sitting president with 88 million followers. No court order. No law. No regulatory body reviewed it. Within seventy-two hours, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, and Twitch followed.... It's not open source atm but we've talked a lot about that possibility. The underlying infrastructure is (1) person specific (so what you see, trust, and even bridges opposing views is relative to you) (2) domain-specific weighted trust (so someone you really trust in movies has... Who decides what counts as misinformation?: Speech liberalists
The Skokie principle In 1978, largely Jewish ACLU lawyers defended neo-Nazis who wanted to march through Skokie, Illinois — a community where one in six residents was a Holocaust survivor. The lawyers did not agree with the Nazis. Several had lost family in the camps.... Who decides what counts as misinformation?: Open process advocates
The Croatian War edit war In 2007, a Wikipedia editor noticed seventeen claims in the Croatian War article sourced to a single nationalist historian. The editor tagged them, opened a talk-page discussion, invited editors from Serbian and Bosnian WikiProjects.... Who decides what counts as misinformation?: Platform governance
Nine minutes January 6, 2021. Eleven people on shift in the trust-and-safety operations center by morning. Forty-three by noon. A post calling for the execution of the vice president sat in the review pipeline for nine minutes before a twenty-six-year-old content moderator in... Who decides what counts as misinformation?: The Story
The letter with no evidence February 19, 2020. Twenty-seven scientists published a Lancet letter declaring lab-origin theories about COVID "do nothing but create fear." The letter cited no genomic evidence.... Trust and Safety 18. Is this a social credit score like Black Mirror or China's system? Heck no, it’s closer to the opposite. China's social credit system assigns a universal score: one number, state-controlled, centralized consequences. UpTrust has no universal score.... Yes I agree, and that kind of commenting usually ends up being a “bridge” on uptrust so it ends up getting more attention. people who at good at I get rewarded, people who don’t want to can just downtrust and that contributes by giving the Bridgers more... June 26: Topic Up/DownTrust This week: would love y’all to use the Up and Down trust buttons on specific topics on posts. The signal you’re sending is: do i trust this content related to this topic?...