How to Scale Your Moral Judgment

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One of my favorite examples of taking a small group of people and scaling them up comes from the hovington st where they had this system. We're the readers who ended up making the same moral judgments as huffington post's paid staff, invisibly got promoted,. like they it badges. Thet'd get badges that'd go from like emma, level one, moderatum, level two, moderator, and eventually, n you hit level three. And all of a sudden your choices as a reader were as powerful. Is just such a brilliant way to take a small groupof people and their values and scale, scales im to omunity judgment.

[This episode originally aired on November 5, 2019] 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.