Mis- and Dis- Information From Online Platforms
Mis- and Dis- information from online platforms is something online platforms like to tell us we should be concerned about so we know that they're concerned about it (otherwise they wouldn’t be bringing it up) so they can then talk about how much they care about curating spaces. Like FB and Twitter self-reported that, “Between 2018 and 2020 they had taken down 147 influence operations in total according to this Brookings article “ How disinformation evolved in 2020 ” by Josh A. Goldstein and Shelby Grossman. Some of the points that stuck out to me the most were how removals are increasingly tied to one actor as Brookings, “Based on our coding, approximately 76% of takedowns were attributed to a specific actor in 2020, compared to 62% in 2019 and 47% in 2018.” If posts taken down are consolidated to a single actor I feel like there must be more actors that they are missing with their current systems, procedures, and analyses. The points Goldstein and Grossman make later in their a...