Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it

Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by echelon on Sunday July 04, 2021 @10:56AM (#27730091)

Regulation.

I think regulation is the answer that aligns with the business model. All businesses are forced to align in the same way, and no company can benefit from breaking the rules.

If you fine companies for every day foreign bot accounts use the platform to spread misinformation, they'll staff up on countermeasures.

If you pass laws against amplifying fake news and spreading negative sentiment, there will be machine learning investments like we've never seen before. Comments that have low confidence scores won't be shared broadly.

If you regulate these companies like common carriers, they'll respect free speech on all sides of the aisle as long as it isn't law breaking.

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by j16sdiz on Sunday July 04, 2021 @11:12AM (#27730241)

International regulations on social media would be interesting. I guess US and China won’t agree on what is fake news.

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by cvwright on Sunday July 04, 2021 @02:35PM (#27731662)

Federation is going to become necessary. Like with email, or with Matrix chat.

Different jurisdictions are going to have laws so divergent that a single platform won't be allowed to operate globally anymore.

So we'll have to have many different providers that can all talk to each other.

Maybe this will be mandated by fiat. Or maybe it will just evolve naturally in response to incentives.

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by Const-me on Sunday July 04, 2021 @01:41PM (#27731319)

They don't have to agree. US-based Google seems OK serving customers from China under the terms of Chinese laws.

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by nradov on Sunday July 04, 2021 @04:34PM (#27732400)

Most Google services are blocked in China.

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @07:14PM (#27733383)

Not sure why you're downvoted. I disagree on implementation but it definitely needs some form of regulation. All other solutions call for massive overnight changes to human nature which isn't gonna happen.

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by isbvhodnvemrwvn on Sunday July 04, 2021 @11:11AM (#27730234)

You assume that regulators and enforcers are free of bias, I have bad news for you...

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