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Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci (Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci) and I have a new paper in Social Media and Society on the evolution of content moderation as a profession. We look at the early history of content moderation and how we abandoned models of community governance. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

We argue that the crisis of legitimacy facing platforms has its roots in their adoption of a "customer service" model of online governance. We propose a return to models of governance that emphasize community participation, drawing on work from Jonathan Zittrain and Aviv Ovadya 🥦 among others

In Tech Policy Press, Chad Rajendra-Nicolucci and Ethan Zuckerman argue that fresh approaches to privacy will be necessary for the ecosystem of third-party tools that complement social media platforms. techpolicy.press/a-better-appro…

A level-headed approach to solving the privacy issues with “middleware” or interoperability. This is the biggest gating issue for changes to our tech ecosystem that could be profoundly game-changing. A workable privacy approach to interoperability would be a HUGE step forward.

Re-upping this piece from my alter ego, Chad...

"Our examination of the early history of online governance suggests that #SocialMedia platforms could return – at least in part – to models of community governance in order to address their crisis of legitimacy" say Ethan Zuckerman & Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci theconversation.com/let-the-commun…

Excited to be working on this over the next year!

new york let's goo time for those apis so we can actually make social media less toxic and safer & better for everyone. the recommended approach from fukuyama et al supreme court amicus brief new yorkers: let your state reps know you care about this! news.bloomberglaw.com/in-house-couns…

New York State checking in with sensible social media regulation! SB 6866 would require platforms to open APIs such that third party developers (like Block Party) who want to empower users and provide the safety solutions that platforms can't or won't, can actually do so.

How big is YouTube? It's a hard question: it took us almost two years to solve it. But now we know, and we've published a big paper in the Journal of Quantitative Description: journalqd.org/article/view/4…

My colleague Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci has smart, practical ideas on how we can make data portable not just once, but on an ongoing, regular basis. I love his mix of policy prescriptions and practical, programmer "just do it"...

A draft of the first chapter from Ethan Zuckerman and Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci's "Field Guide to Social Media" book is up and we'd love your feedback on it. publicinfrastructure.org/2024/02/07/fie…

For the next few months, Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci and Ethan Zuckerman are sharing drafts of every chapter in their upcoming "Field Guide to Social Media" on MIT Press. It's a really special project, and we want to invite all of you to take part by telling us what you think in each draft's comments.

With my brilliant friends at Knight First Amendment Institute, I filed suit against Meta today, asking a federal court to find that CDA section 230 gives users rights to control what they see on social media via third party tools. See our complaint at knightcolumbia.org/cases/zuckerma…