Dave Rand

Prof at MIT working on misinformation/fake news, social media, intuition vs deliberation, cooperation, politics, and religion.
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2023-12-07 22:52:48

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@npub1250…xt3h Thanks for your engagement! To clarify, the data we were collecting was on what news domains people on different servers share, and how toxic the language they use is etc; and then how that relates to the formal rules the server posts. But also we would LOVE to talk admins about how they actual think about / do content moderation etc (We have talked to some already, and are def interested in more!)

2023-12-06 14:20:23

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@npub1fky…y8en Hi all, apologies for this, I didn't realize the bot was being poorly behaved - we've now stopped it. In terms of why we were doing the scraping, we are doing research on how content moderation policies vary across servers, and how this can help inform the Fediverse more broadly about effective approaches to content moderation. You can get more of a sense of the kind of research we do here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k2D4zVqkSHB1M9wpXtAe3UzbeE0RPpD_E2UpaPf6Lds/edit?usp=sharing
Sorry again about causing problems for folks! (And thanks to a couple of people for emailing me to let me know about this)