Considering technical questions about online platforms as social
from Civic Hosted by Mel Baker, Liana Wilcox, Laura Wenus
After a mob of pro-Trump agitators stormed the Capitol last week, forcing a delay in the certification of the electoral vote for president, Twitter was the first social media platform to block Donald Trump from posting, with others soon following suit. Ali Alkhatib, a research fellow at the University of San Francisco’s Center for Applied Data Ethics, examines how platforms moderate content and enforce rules with an eye on the social impacts of those choices.
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