A couple days ago I wrote up my description of the Information Intervention Chain. One of the points there was that work on each layer decreases the load on the layers below, and helps cover some of the errors not caught in the layers above. Here’s a simple example, where a user has has responded… Continue reading

Some notes I just wanted to get down. There are four places where information interventions can be applied. Moderation/Promotion. A platform always makes decisions on what to put in front of a user. It can decide to privilege information that is more reliable on one or another dimension, or to reduce the dissemination of unreliable… Continue reading