Driving test and speed bumps: How to save our social media by treating it like a city | MIT Technology Review
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We need to make our online spaces more similar to our offline ones to limit the reach of bad actors and keep people safe.
Driving test and speed bumps: How to save our social media by treating it like a city | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content Being on social media can feel a bit like living in a new kind of city. It’s the greatest city in the world. Millions of people can do things their parents never dreamed of . They can live together, play together, learn together . The city is a marvel. But it’s also rotten. Raw sewage runs in the streets. Every once in a while, a mass frenzy takes hold. Citizen denounces citizen . Relationships are irrevocably broken . My job used to be to protect the city. I was a memb
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