Content Moderation

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Related: Platform Transparency · Social Media Regulation · Stanford Internet Observatory · Twitter · Meta · Google · Facebook · Tiktok

Notes

• Agreement on Transparency and Researcher Access, But Will It Matter? — Bipartisan congressional and industry consensus on PATA researcher access to social media data
• Disinformation Is a Threat to Our Democracy — Obama Stanford speech on disinformation and social media democracy threats
• Getting Transparency Right — Legal analysis of privacy, Section 230, and First Amendment trade-offs in platform transparency legislation
• Law Requiring Social Media Transparency Would Break New Ground — Platform Accountability and Transparency Act requiring social media data disclosure to FTC and researchers
• Some Humility About Transparency — Practical trade-offs and costs in mandating social media transparency reporting
• The New 'Transparent' Twitter Isn't Very Transparent — Critique of Twitter's partial algorithm open-sourcing as superficial transparency theater
• The Platform Accountability and Transparency Act, Take Two — Details of formally introduced PATA bill expanding researcher and public access to social media data