Re: Social Media Shadow Banning (limiting user engagement)
“Changing whether, and how, people encounter disinformation is another area where research is needed. Interventions might involve identifying pieces of disinformation, or identifying problematic accounts, and either warning people or algorithmically reducing the visibility of disinformation.
It is important to figure out how to identify nefarious content quickly”
“Cooperate to trace users sharing disinformation across platforms”
“Can we develop protocols to identify people?”
Twitter has kept bad (treasonous?) company.
Roll call of participants war-gaming on shutting down opposition voices include:
Professors from MIT, NYU, Princeton, Stanford, USC (and others)
CFR member (at least one)
Director from Bill Gates Foundation
Others from:
Democracy Fund
Aspen Institute
Reddit, Twitter, Google, Microsoft [David Rothschild], Facebook
https://hewlett.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Whats-Next-for-Digital-Disinformation-A-Research-Roadmap.pdf
"Whether or not Facebook decides to reinstate former President Trump’s account in the coming months will likely have major consequences for Trump's political power and possible future campaign," NPR wrote on Twitter.
"Being on Facebook is crucial for modern-day political campaigns," NPR explains in the accompanying story. A Big Tech blackout would mean a drop in fundraising and "a significant revenue valve would be shut off for Trump, imperiling a 2024 presidential bid, if he decides to run again." This could also trickle down to negatively affect the midterm candidates he plans to endorse, they write.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-ripped-for-openly-admitting-big-tech-interference-in-elections
Interesting way of admitting how much election interference and election meddling against Republicans that our tech companies can do and have done!
May 6, 2021
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1390371779345010699