How Will AI Affect the 2024 Elections? with Renee DiResta and Carl Miller
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Regulating Digital Engagement for Sensitive Periods
The idea is to implement digital morality blockouts during sensitive periods, similar to media blockouts before elections, to prevent indiscriminate virality. This process should involve bipartisan oversight, public transparency, and a good faith effort to reduce excessive engagement on platforms. The opposite of engagement is latency, so hitting engagement companies where it hurts means introducing pauses to prevent continued engagement. Platforms should reduce engagement on experimental or untested features during sensitive periods, such as elections, to minimize the impact of unverified functionalities. Drawing inspiration from the US stock market, social media platforms could introduce circuit breakers to pause engagement-based ranking during sensitive times, shifting to a chronological feed instead.
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