Farnaz Jahanbakhsh
@farnazj.bsky.social
assistant prof in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan, prev postdoc at Stanford HAI, PhD at MIT CSAIL, research in HCI and Social Computing
It is unrealistic to expect that every website on the web, some the very perpetrators of misinformation, offer misinformation moderation and in a fair and rigorous way. And here’s where our CHI'24 paper comes to the rescue.
March 20, 2024 at 6:42 AM
It is unrealistic to expect that every website on the web, some the very perpetrators of misinformation, offer misinformation moderation and in a fair and rigorous way. And here’s where our CHI'24 paper comes to the rescue.
It gives any user the power to assess content accuracy & specify whose assessment they trust. Of course platforms are unlikely to change their design so drastically, not w/o push from the outside. What’s more, people encounter (mis)information anywhere on the web, not just on social platforms.
March 20, 2024 at 6:42 AM
It gives any user the power to assess content accuracy & specify whose assessment they trust. Of course platforms are unlikely to change their design so drastically, not w/o push from the outside. What’s more, people encounter (mis)information anywhere on the web, not just on social platforms.
I’ve been advocating for decentralizing the power to moderate misinformation. We had a paper at #CSCW22 (dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...) where we showed how a platform can do that. There, I built a social media platform that resembles any other, except for 2 major differences:
March 20, 2024 at 6:41 AM
I’ve been advocating for decentralizing the power to moderate misinformation. We had a paper at #CSCW22 (dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...) where we showed how a platform can do that. There, I built a social media platform that resembles any other, except for 2 major differences: