For anyone who’s willing to spend ~15 mins on this, I’d encourage you to play TechDirt’s simulator game Trust & Safety Tycoon.
While it’s hardly comprehensive, it’s a fun way of thinking about the balance between needing to remain profitable/solvent whilst also choosing what social values to promote.
It’s really easy to say “they should do [x]”, but sometimes that’s not what your investors want, or it has a toll in other ways.
Personally, I want to see more action on disinformation. In my mind, that is the single biggest vulnerability that can be exploited with almost no repurcussions, and the world is facing some important public decisions (e.g. elections). I don’t pretend to know the specific solution, but it’s an area that needs way more investment and recognition than it currently gets.
Funding/resourcing is obviously challenging, but I think there are things that can support it:
State it publicly as a proud position. Other platforms are too eager to promote “free speech” at all costs, when in fact they are private companies that can impose whatever rules they want. Stating a firm position doesn’t cost anything at all, whilst also playing a role in attracting a certain kind of user and giving them confidence to report things that are dodgy.
Leverage AI. LLMs and other types of AI tools can be used to detect bots, deepfakes and apply sentiment analysis on written posts. Obviously it’s not perfect and will require human oversight, but it can be an enormous help so staff can see things faster that they otherwise might miss.
Punish offenders. Acknowledging complexities with how to enforce it consistently, there are still things you can do to remove the most egregious bad actors from the platform and signal to others.
Price it in. If you know that you need humans to enforce the rules, then build it into your advertising fees (or other revenue streams) and sell it as a feature (e.g.: companies pay extra so they don’t have to worry about reputational damage when their product appears next to racists etc). The workforce you need isn’t that large compared to the revenue these platforms can potentially generate.
I don’t mean to suggest it’s easy or failsafe. But it’s what I would do.
The platform of course but I’m aware it would most likely be against their best interest. I don’t really have a solution, this is just wishful thinking.
That’s pretty much reddit’s approach. On this platform, the community takes over the moderation of all posts without any financial compensation - this is rather unusual as far as larger platforms are concerned. But this approach also presents major difficulties: Reddit has a large number of moderators who manage several very wide-ranging communities/subreddits. In the past, this has led to the problem that Reddit admins have sold their direct “influence” to advertisers and other interest groups. The social media application, in this case Reddit, has little to no influence on this - after all, the admin is not an employee of the company.
That is how they approached the problem, FB approached it differently 🤷.
Of course, the crowd you want to cater to also matters. FB and Reddit have a completely different crowd, thus, Reddit would have lost a substantial portion of it’s users is it approached it like FB did.
Nah, this is sleezy. She will catch on and it will only amplify her fears that she has to be thin to be attractive. Ask of tho so what she wants to do first?
Late nineties ,early aughts… Did you used to mod Nokia bricks and early Motorola flip phones? (Razr iirc) Used to get blinking LEDs, replace the antennas with them, clear batteries that had flashing lights. Pretty much the OG RGB
They were replaced by “always on” OLED displays. When I turn my phone off, the screen still displays the time and notifications. The beauty of OLED is that each pixel is its own LED, so only a portion of the screen needs to be powered. Essentially, the whole display is the new notification light.
“no, you’re thicc”… then explain to her it’s the most popular body type by today’s beauty standards… which fluctuates and health and happiness are all that matters… and youd love her if she was a brain in a jar, but she happens to be really hot… something like that
also, get an Australian Cattle Dog… that’ll force ya’ll to be more active…
“I want you to be happy with your body, if you need me to reassure you about how attractive you are I can, or if you want me to support you with changing your weight I can. I love you and your body”
At least that’s basically where I go as a woman with a healthy weight but body image issues for not being underweight and a wife who gained a lot of weight over the pandemic and a girlfriend who is in the “needs to lose weight for her health” range.
Sometimes people will say something negative about themselves because they’re hoping you will say something positive, instead. I used to do the same thing. Whenever I was feeling insecure about my looks or weight, I would say something negative about myself, because my husband would tell me it wasn’t true and would give me compliments that would boost my self-confidence. I don’t do that anymore, because it’s not a very healthy way to be confident in yourself, but it certainly was effective. Do you think maybe your girlfriend is just feeling insecure about herself? I would talk to her about that to see if maybe it’s something she’d like to work on in herself. You can also try to give her honest compliments on a regular basis. It’s hard for a girl (or guy!) to feel unattractive if her loved one is telling her twice a day that her shirt looks good on her, or he loves her laugh, or he thinks she’s pretty.
I think it’s because if dumb people commenting about every little change of appearance. Sadly we live in one of those places where people comment on these things all the time. They told her she is to thin before now they tell her she gained weight. There’s no way to win with them, and sadly usually they are close family members that you can’t just avoid.
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