The Disinformation Nextdoor
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week on Arbiters of Truth, the Lawfare Podcast's series on our online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with the journalist Will Oremus, who until recently was a senior writer at the technology publication OneZero and who is one of the most astute observers of online platforms and their relationship to the media. They dug into Will’s reporting on the social media platform Nextdoor. The app is designed to connect neighbors, but Will argues it’s filling the space left by collapsing local news—which may not be the best development when the platform is struggling with many of the common challenges of content moderation. And, of course, they also talked about the inescapable, ever-present elephant in the room—the Facebook Oversight Board’s ruling on Donald Trump’s account.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | Next door does have an algorithm to decide what to show you at the top of your |
| 0:38.9 | feed and it does have I think maybe more importantly based on my experience. |
| 0:43.1 | It has an algorithm to decide when to send you a push notification. |
| 0:46.5 | What posts are gonna make your phone blow up and make you check it to see what's |
| 0:52.4 | going on on next door and from what I've seen their biggest signal is when a |
| 0:57.8 | post is getting a lot of replies in in a short time period and that tends to be |
| 1:03.0 | when people are arguing and so the posts that do make you pull out your phone |
| 1:08.3 | and open next door tend to be the most divisive ones. |
| 1:11.8 | They tend to be the ones you know when somebody posts something that's wrong or |
| 1:15.5 | that's a lie or that's offensive a lot of people are gonna jump in and start |
| 1:18.9 | arguing that's gonna be the one you see so I think there's there's a problematic |
| 1:23.1 | element there. |
| 1:24.8 | I'm Quintedurastic and this is the LawFair podcast May 13th 2021. |
| 1:32.9 | Today we're bringing you another episode of our Arward Is of Truth series on our |
| 1:36.4 | online information ecosystem. |
| 1:39.2 | I've only do a can I spoke with the journalist Willa Remus one of the most |
| 1:42.8 | student observers of online platforms in the relationship to the media. |
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