How to Scale Into a Community Judgment

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Ovinon post had these paid moderators, righte, these ones who were like the super moderators. And then as they had all these users, just the readers, and so as the readers were marking what they liked and didn't like, they built this clever system where the readers who ended up making the same moral judgments as huffington post's paid staff invisibly got promoted w a eitty badges thatd get badges to moderator level three. Thits just such a brilliant way of taking a small group of people and their values and scaling into a community judgment. It's a way that thik you've imagined, if there re many hugf poes, right? Ay,

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.