There are a lot of great academics doing super important research about Big Tech, content moderation, and freedom of expression. Their perspectives are important.
But journalists also need to talk to ACTIVISTS, who have actual lived experience using social media for organizing.
But journalists also need to talk to ACTIVISTS, who have actual lived experience using social media for organizing.
Your perspective on things like disinformation & deplatforming change dramatically when you have actually experienced getting deplatformed or algorithmically suppressed or incorrectly flagged as spam just as a campaign is going viral. Even if it's fixed later, the damage is done.
Your average sex worker or Palestine activist knows more about Big Tech power and content moderation than pretty much anyone with a PHD. Sorry not sorry
(Also just to be clear lots of sex workers and Palestine activists do have PhDs so not trying to create a dichotomy) just saying people's lived experiences are at least as important to their formal education, especially when it comes to complex issues like content moderation
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