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Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won’t fix the problem | MIT Technology Review

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Companies already have the systems in place that are needed to evaluate their deeper impacts on the social fabric.

Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won’t fix the problem | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content We all want to be able to speak our minds online—to be heard by our friends and talk (back) to our opponents. At the same time, we don’t want to be exposed to speech that is inappropriate or crosses a line. Technology companies address this conundrum by setting standards for free speech, a practice protected under federal law. They hire in-house moderators to examine individual pieces of content and remove them if posts violate predefined rules set by the platforms. The approach cl

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