Moderation Is Different from Censorship

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This is on point

> The goal of all this activity is not to debate, converse or exchange information. The goal is to win by being maximally controversial, as that's the behavior that is rewarded.

> the real issue: what gets amplified

But it can be (at least partially) fixed if you change the optimization function.

I advocate for that here: https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/bridging-based-rank...

And Twitter's Birdwatch (that Elon recently got all excited about when ti fact checked the White House: https://twitter.com/metaviv/status/1587884806020415491) actually does this "bridging-based ranking" for adding context on tweets.

Here's the paper with details on how it works for Birdwatch: https://github.com/twitter/birdwatch/blob/main/birdwatch_pap... (you can also check out the source code in that repo).

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