Kiran, thanks for putting into writing what those of us who’ve worked in this issue area for the last decade are feeling. One point that I think should be added, and one point I want to contest. Additive - Those of us working on these issues (particularly in international non-english settings) understand the profoundly difficult (near intractable) nature of the challenge of disinfo and harmful speech. To meaningfully impact this challenge on open and closed networks would require platforms to 100x their already multi $billion investment into content moderation. With DSA et al bringing punitive (bottom line) impact, the platforms have found common cause with a populist/libertarian approach to online speech. Our sector has been cancelled because it spoke truth to profits. The point I want to contest is that this pivot is a retreat. As you know, we are undergoing the same pivot (though we started our’s 18 months ago) from mis/dis to AI. I see the research challenges related to AI use as foundational to developing an approach to our next knowledge ecosystems (post-internet) that solves for context, locality, temporality, provenance, proximity et al that are critical to information quality. At the end of the day if we can develop local models that solve community information needs, preserve community data rights, and enable communities to improve and evolve these models, we are going to solve for disinformation at a structural and not just a responsive level. Hope to continue partnering on the deeper work of improving digital knowledge ecosystems to the benefit of the people who inhabit these spaces.
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