Content Moderation Without Values

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In norway, there was a newspaper that posted the picture of the napom girl. And and it was taken down by facebook because it was against continent moderation policies. The only criteria is naked or not naked, check, done, right? So david kay, who's the u.N. Special reperteur for freedom of expression, he says, why don't we use the u n. Declaration human rights as a framework for content moderation? Because that means you need to move away from these types of lists and automation and making people act like machines. If you have real power, and tech has real power, it determines the reality we live in now. But before you can go

Maria Ressa is arguably one of the bravest journalists working in the Philippines today. As co-founder and CEO of the media site Rappler, she has withstood death threats, multiple arrests and a rising tide of populist fury that she first saw on Facebook, in the form of a strange and jarring personal attack. Through her story, she reveals, play by play, how an aspiring strongman can use social media to spread falsehoods, sow confusion, intimidate critics and subvert democratic institutions. Nonetheless, she argues Silicon Valley can reverse these trends, and fast. First, tech companies must "wake up," she says, to the threats they've unleashed throughout the Global South. Second, they must recognize that social media is intrinsically designed to favor the strongman over the lone dissident and the propagandist over the truth-teller, which is why it has become the central tool in every aspiring dictator's playbook.