Joanna

It's impossible to condense over 3 decades of research and writing about trust and safety and internet governance into a 14 week class... but here's a first draft of the syllabus and reading list for my course next semester: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I'd love your feedback and suggestions.

Resiliency & Leadership: a personal guide for news and social media Earlier this month, I was asked to present a keynote speech and lead a workshop at the Media Party, Buenos Aires.

Working my way up in local news, I met so many people traumatised by the work...

When it comes to supporting people in news, we could and should have done a lot better sooner.

But we didn’t.

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Earlier this month I created a workshop about newsroom leadership and resiliency.

I wanted to share it more widely. I hope it helps:

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Improving the effectiveness of product features: Supporting product experimentation and existing initiatives where additional credible context could make our work better. For example, Birdwatch will use feedback from AP and Reuters as one way to assess the quality of information elevated by Birdwatch participants.

This included helping AP and @Reuters.bsky.social check contributions: blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics...

I have no idea if that work continues.

I wish them luck, I do. And I hope they continue the Twitter 1.0 intention to be as transparent as possible on how the product works.

While @yoyoel.com is right that Curation’s main brush with misinformation was with context provision for labels, we also supported Birdwatch in myriad ways…

“The intention of Birdwatch was always to be a complement to, rather than a replacement for, Twitter's other misinformation methods,” says Roth. “The company fired the entire curation team, without whom misinformation enforcement can't operate, even if the policies are still on the books,” he says, referring to the former employees who would create the collections of tweets for corrections or produce the labels to let users know if something was misinformative.

I also saw its potential if complemented by a proactively-managed and adequately resourced fact checker community.

But it now seems placed in hard spot: under-resourced on community strategy and management and also positioned as a singular strategy for dealing with misinformation on the platform.

When Birdwatch was first proposed I worried about speed and if it would become a better indicator of political controversy than of true misinformation.

But I also believed it worth supporting as we knew centralised misinformation enforcement was a blunt tool to wield
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I’m considering it.

When people ask me about my time at Twitter my usual response is “it was wild and I could write a book about it, but so could 3,000 other people.”

But you know what? I suspect only a handful of them were forged in equivalent fires. My concept of a stressful workplace situation has forever changed.

And so begins the era of AI deploying our most common logical fallacies to publicly debate politics with itself.

Working alongside @yoyoel.com and team in the last few years I’ve become increasingly convinced curation is a critical part of the future of “internet sanitation”.

Obviously there should be transparency and choice in that, but it provides a rare opportunity to tackle moderation issues proactively.

This is a pragmatic look at what could be possible when attempting moderation at scale.

I hope we also can start talking openly about platform incentives alongside sanitation.

It isn’t just the entry policy and bouncer that makes the bar- it’s the decor, music and hosted events too.

@lucab.me Hello!

It’s amazing how often “platform used by fewer people feels like nicer place to be” can be written as a news story.

We’re now @BNONews.com

Anyone got a good audiobook recommendation? Fiction preferred, not a stickler for specific genres.

which newsroom will have the first journalist verified with a subdomain handle? 👀

e.g. @name.newsroom.com

Composable Moderation A customizable, composable approach to moderation that prioritizes safety and gives users and developers more control.

Something I especially like about the vision for bsky moderation (https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/4-13-2023-moderation) is the (unstated) premise that all labels in the moderation service are fully public and visible/auditable by anyone.

That’s what transparency to build trust actually looks like.

Caption to my life.

One day I’ll join a network and be @joanna. Today is not that day.

Just setting up my…