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NEW DELHI, 5 May:<\/strong> To curb the flow of misinformation on social media, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) on Thursday demanded enactment of transparency laws and a regulator under Parliamentary oversight for such online platforms.<\/p>\n Future of India Foundation, in a report titled ‘Politics of disinformation’, claimed that social media platforms adopted design choices, which instead led to a proliferation and mainstreaming of misinformation while allowing themselves to be weaponised by powerful vested interests for political and commercial benefits.<\/p>\n It claimed that the current system of content moderation is more of a public relations exercise for platforms and not aimed at stopping the spread of misinformation.<\/p>\n Addressing a press conference here, Future of India Foundation director Ruchi Gupta said fact-checking approach to combat misinformation applies only to a tiny subset of content selected for the purpose, while a vast ocean of un-reviewed content is spreading unchecked on the platforms.<\/p>\n The report recommended that content moderation and its allied functions such as standard setting, fact checking and de-platforming must be embedded in the sovereign bipartisan political process for democratic legitimacy.<\/p>\n “At the same time, it is important to ensure that a political approach to misinformation does not degrade into legal sanction for censorship at the behest of the government,” it said.<\/p>\n The report stated that any regulatory body must thus be grounded in democratic principles of diversity, dissent, inclusion, transparency and accountability its own and of the social media platforms.<\/p>\n The NGO suggested that platforms make chronological feed default, thereby exposing the user to only that content which he has specifically opted to receive; and to ensure that all content which is put in the feed is controlled for source and quality.<\/p>\n It also recommended periodical review and de-platforming of a set of users who acquired high organic reach by propagating “false and divisive content” or through other inauthentic processes.<\/p>\n “Platforms should establish a principle of progressively more stringent content guidelines for users with high organic reach and select the top users (either top one percent of users in a geography, or all users above a certain follower threshold) for review,” it said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW DELHI, 5 May: To curb the flow of misinformation on social media, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) on Thursday demanded enactment of transparency laws and a regulator under Parliamentary oversight for such online platforms. Future of India Foundation, in a report titled ‘Politics of disinformation’, claimed that social media platforms adopted design choices, which instead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-190325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}