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Dan Byman on Content Moderation Tools to Stop Extremism

The Lawfare Podcast

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Reducing Distribution and Structuring Dialogue

i take part of the point of your paper is to get people to think beyond removing content and really think about the other two categories, reducing distribution and shaping dialogue. So when we talk about reducing distribution, if you and i both make clever remarks on twitter, there is a question of how much its amplified by the platform. But at the same time, they can also amplify competing content. We saw this in the lead up to the 20 20 election and the a insurrection of the caital where a facebook was giving extra amplification to post. That led to angry responses because people stayed on the platform longer. People read our stuff more, but it leads to a more toxic platform.

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