4 Interventions
There are various types of interventions that are already being used to counteract the spread of misinformation online or that have the potential to be part of the solution in the future.
Content Moderation
Moderating content online requires transparency. Twitter and Facebook use a combination of machine learning and human analysts for content moderation. Twitter also publishes its content moderation processes and enforcement rules. A “behaviour-first approach” is used by Twitter which involves scrutinising the behaviour of a Twitter account first before reviewing content posted by the account (Dorsey 2020). It is vital for any systems moderating content online that the transparency they purport ...
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