Read our new report, Improving Social Media: The People, Organizations and Ideas for a Better Tech Future.
This report features a diverse range of 42 interviews from across civil society, government, and industry about ways to improve social media. Developed by All Tech Is Human with the assistance of 100 collaborators from a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives, the report proposes a holistic, collective approach to improving social media.
It is time to move from the current disjointed reactive state to a more comprehensive proactive approach. Let’s co-create the tech future that we all want to live in.
All Tech Is Human is an organization committed to growing the Responsible Tech pipeline, making it more diverse, multidisciplinary, and aligned with the public interest. We have a unique position as the connective tissue that holds together a wide range of participants, allowing for a rare holistic understanding of complex issues.
"For my part, I would be encouraged to see more people involved with a deep and practical understanding of human psychology and the ways to support our most vulnerable populations."-Dona Bellow, Responsible Innovation Manager, Facebook
"The conundrum is not exactly whether platforms moderate too much or too little. it is more about whether platform policies around moderation are guided by the kinds of considerations that social media companies operating in democratic, decidedly anti-racist societies should prioritize."-Oumou Ly, Staff Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
"While I'd much rather use the carrot, there are times the stick is definitely needed. And, as expressed through our commitment to safety by design, we absolutely believe that industry has to do better in making their platforms safer, more secure and that they need to be both more transparent and accountable for harms that take place on their platforms."-Julie Inman-Grant, eSafety Commissioner of Australia
"This cannot just be left to technologists to solve and lawyers to debate. Social media has a profound impact on all of society, and we are all stakeholders in the ultimate solutions."-Yael Eisenstat, Democracy activist; former Facebook elections integrity head; former diplomat, intel officer and White House advisor
"The scale of the problems of platform management, especially content moderation, but also cross-cultural complexities, push platforms to look for automated, AI-driven solutions that lack nuance and often punish more users who do not look like a platform's imagined average user."-Amanda Lenhart, Program Director, Health + Data, Data & Society Research Institute
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