Driving test and speed bumps: How to save our social media by treating it like a city | MIT Technology Review

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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