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A Federal Agency to Regulate Social Media Is a Good Idea. Here’s What It Should Do.
In a recent New York Times essay, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Lindsey Graham proposed a new federal agency to regulate social media and tech companies. As the CEO and founder of LiveWorld, the longest-standing social media-related company in the world (27 years), having overseen more than 3 million hours of content moderation and engagement managed […]
Read moreThreads, from Meta, is likely to succeed where other Twitter wannabes will not, and where Elon Musk has failed.
Elon Musk’s chaotic reign of Twitter, from a breaking system to erratic policies, to layoffs and fees with total indifference to the impact on people, users, brands, and partners has left the door wide open for another company to take over the lead in the text comment – micro-blogging space. Likely pushing Twitter aside and […]
Read moreSocial Media & Government: Cooperation for Saving Lives, Not Censorship
The Louisiana federal judge’s injunction curtailing cooperation between the federal government and social media networks and the state AG’s petitions supporting it are ill-placed politicking and dangerous. I’ve been running, managing, and moderating online communities and social media networks for over 30 years, from leading Apple’s global online communities in the 90s, to moderating AOL, […]
Read moreReddit’s ill-conceived API Pricing & Response to Moderators: What To Do About It
Reddit: Oh what a tangled web we weave, when at first we slap our value creators in the face. While it’s understandable that Reddit wants to monetize its content, the service’s new API charges and its heavy-handed response to moderator protests are ill-conceived. Especially since almost all of the content comes from either these same […]
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