What if Twitter Were Redesigned for When We Make Mistakes?

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I think one of the things that's gone wrong in social media is the lack of forgiveness and mistakes being career ending, right? The notion if you say the wrong thing once, there's no room for trying out something. And i think you can extrapolate that up to our global political moment, where people have views they want to work out and talk about, but everything feels so charged and radioactive. N favorite log post that's in the realm of thinking about how to deal with such solutions like this was by a nick punt from stanford business school. He actually games out what would it happen if there was sort of a, instead of a reach weed button, and i made a

You’ve heard us talk before on this podcast about the pitfalls of trying to moderate a “global public square.” Our guest today, Eli Pariser, co-director of Civic Signals, co-founder of Avaaz, and author of "The Filter Bubble," has been thinking for years about how to create more functional online spaces and is bringing people together to solve that problem. He believes the answer lies in creating spaces and groups intentionally, with the same kinds of skilled support and infrastructure that we would enlist in the physical world. It’s not enough to expect the big revenue-oriented tech companies to transform their tools into something less harmful; Eli is encouraging us to proactively gather in our own spaces, optimized for togetherness and cooperation.