A proposal with policy recommendations for supporting prosocial platforms - governing tech design goes "upstream" as opposed to the "downstream" regulations that govern content. toda.org/assets/files...
14.07.2025 13:34 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Social media can support or undermine democracy – it comes down to how it’s designed
Social media design influences human behavior, and the Big Tech platforms use it to boost profits – and their owners’ political agendas. Some smaller platforms are using design to support democracy.
“Platform design is a silent pilot steering human behavior.”
Friend of New_ Public @lisa-schirch.bsky.social warns profit-driven social media design is leading us into an era of "techno-autocracy."
But in the right hands, platform design can foster democratic engagement and civic participation.
09.07.2025 17:56 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
[New OpEd] @lisa-schirch.bsky.social I @notredame.bsky.social argues for a reimagining of governance frameworks for content moderation. How can a prosocial tech design for digital platforms steer human behaviour towards non-harmful or healthy communities?
Read: policyreview.info/articles/new...
24.04.2025 09:38 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
LLMs & Public Discourse: Livestream · Luma
About the event:
Please join us for a showcase on LLMs and Public Discourse, co-hosted by Plurality Institute and The Council on Technology and Social Cohesion…
At our LLMs and Public Discourse event, University of Notre Dame's Lisa Schirch and Kristina Radivojevic will present Training an LLM Co-Pilot & Building a Social Media Sandbox.
📅 Thursday February 27th | 6:30pm PT / 9:30pm ET
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24.02.2025 04:04 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The Rise of America’s Broligarchy and What to Do About It
Campaign finance rules and checks on presidential power are collapsing just as leading tech giants have gained power.
"Tech billionaires, who already had enormous power, helped underwrite a winning presidential campaign in ways that would have been illegal just a few elections ago." — @larrynorden.bsky.social & @danw329.bsky.social on the rise of the "broligarchy" and what we can do about it
12.02.2025 12:48 — 👍 146 🔁 58 💬 11 📌 9
You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
12.02.2025 02:44 — 👍 1503 🔁 697 💬 52 📌 51
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12.02.2025 01:08 — 👍 254 🔁 89 💬 10 📌 4
Elon Musk is systematically seizing control over our nation’s communications, financial systems and data and military infrastructures.
Musk isn’t a fourth branch of government, just another Silicon Valley who wants to be dictator of the world.
05.02.2025 18:10 — 👍 3673 🔁 1171 💬 355 📌 75
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has returned from a trip to El Salvador where he secured an agreement from that country's president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality — including American citizens — offering to hold them in the country's sprawling maximum-security facility…
04.02.2025 20:18 — 👍 4179 🔁 2524 💬 861 📌 635
Opinion | What is Elon Musk doing? Not slashing the budget.
DOGE isn’t getting anywhere near $2 trillion in spending cuts. Here’s a plan that would.
It’s not entirely clear what the purpose of these raids is, but from the outside it appears that DOGE is mainly concerned at this point with amassing huge stores of data, from payment information to private personnel records. @mattbaidc.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
05.02.2025 18:57 — 👍 218 🔁 86 💬 20 📌 7
Lawsuits matter. More of this, please.
05.02.2025 16:00 — 👍 42 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
Warren, from earlier —
“This is the system that makes sure that your grandpa gets his social security check on time. This is the system that makes sure that your mom's doctor gets paid for her Medicare exam. Elon Musk wants the power to turn that on, to turn that off, as Elon Musk decides.”
04.02.2025 23:51 — 👍 2617 🔁 520 💬 29 📌 31
The signs.
“Unelected autocrat”
“No oligarchs, no kings”
“Muskrats are an invasive species”
04.02.2025 23:24 — 👍 3464 🔁 637 💬 24 📌 26
House and Senate Democrats are showing up in droves. Raskin, Pressley, Warren, Van Hollen to name a few.
Schumer too. The crowd erupted into a chant of “Shut down the Senate!” while he made his exit.
04.02.2025 22:55 — 👍 5226 🔁 981 💬 52 📌 127
The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
04.02.2025 22:43 — 👍 43845 🔁 11175 💬 888 📌 923
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
An explanation of the trade war, the ICE raids, and what must be done to stop the oligarchy from dismantling our government.
03.02.2025 13:04 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Democracy with a formidable social conscience is the only way forward. #delibtech #civictech #citizenassembly @lisa-schirch.bsky.social
31.01.2025 09:40 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
27.01.2025 15:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Every day in the last week feels as devastating as 9/11 as we hear more about the felon's circus and executive orders. But instead of Al Qaeda, it is our own government doing this to our neighbors. And it is our own neighbors who elected this tyrant.
27.01.2025 05:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Navajo Nation leaders address reports of ICE detaining tribal citizens
Social media reports of Navajo citizens being detained by ICE prompted Navajo leaders to explore ways to protect their people.
The Trump administration's latest assault on Indigenous rights is a shameful continuation of centuries of betrayal and oppression. They are living in fear - and our past proves they should.
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25.01.2025 19:58 — 👍 211 🔁 113 💬 18 📌 6
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