4 papers
Evaluating for the long term: Learnings from industry
Leif Sigerson, Tom Cunningham, Winston Chou +22
Online platforms prioritize long-term business outcomes, yet typical experiments are far too short to measure these outcomes directly. Our goal in this paper is to collect and shar…
Social Media Harm Abatement: Mechanisms for Transparent Public Health Assessment
Nathaniel Lubin, Yuning Liu, Amanda Yarnell +7
Social media platforms have been accused of causing a range of harms, resulting in dozens of lawsuits across jurisdictions. These lawsuits are situated within the context of a long…
Shaping the Future of Social Media with Middleware
Luke Hogg, Renée DiResta, Francis Fukuyama +6
Middleware, third-party software intermediaries between users and platforms, has been broached as a means to decentralize the power of social media platforms and enhance user agenc…
AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares
Beth Goldberg, Diana Acosta-Navas, Michiel Bakker +24
Two substantial technological advances have reshaped the public square in recent decades: first with the advent of the internet and second with the recent introduction of large lan…