Fair warning: Here comes a long thread on scholarship front I should have done ages ago, but Covid-homeschooling-with-4-kids-not-so-much-with-the-free-time: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Integrating egs from Sri Lanka, S. Sudan, Myanmar, Turkey, India: 1/ Highlights the role of civil society organizations who "take on systematic and large-scale content moderation work, without any social media platform paying them for their labor." @EqualityLabs @CPASL
2/ "[U]nderscores the reality that at least some global rules will have to be localized differently to achieve the same goal in one locale versus another." @dalitdiva @riovictoire @DiaKayyali @davidakaye @TarletonG @klonick @digitalrightsMM @PeaceTechLab @globalvoices
But that 3/ Without a "principled way for dealing with the need for flexibility in a pluralized system, the ability for local populations to secure appropriately contextualized modifications to [a platform's] global rules ... turns on state power." @zeynep @rmack @jilliancyork
Ad $$ direct attention. Per @facebook quarterly earnings a user in the U.S. is, on average, more than 11 times more valuable to Facebook’s bottom line than a user in Myanmar, and more than 16 times more valuable than a user in South Sudan. @julie17usc @ethanz
Related detour: If you haven't already seen the news, here's an announcement to give you your dose of daily joy in the midst of Covid: ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2020/04/2…
And yes, I call out Facebook’s "total failure to do the basic due diligence, or develop the cultural competence needed, to responsibly enter the Myanmar market in advance of launching its platform there." @kcroninfurman @amandataub @KAlexaKoenig @akilaGJC @EIrvingNL
Grateful for comments thus far from @daniellecitron @becingber @daphnehk @jendaskal @Barrie_Sander @mollyland01 @evelyndouek @susanfranck @PamelaBookman & apologies to many others I can't immediately find twitter handles for!
Looking forward to more feedback from anyone who has time to read. Working draft here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… @threadreaderapp unroll
