Justice Happens Here
Justice Happens Here is the Justice Collaboratory’s blog written by its senior research team. The Justice Collaboratory’s mission is to bring the latest ideas in the social sciences to bear on current problems. Rooted in the tenets of procedural justice, we seek to improve both the criminal legal and social media governance systems.
The falling dominoes: on tech-platforms recent user moderation
Tech-platforms in the past week had to remove and ban someone because of inciting violence. That person happened to be the President of the United States.
The social media executive order: regulation of behavior not content
Last week Twitter flagged a tweet from the U.S. President as false. Consequently, the President decided to issue an executive order “on preventing online censorship.” While we have observed the apparent self-defeating nature of this order, there is a bigger issue at stake.
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