Facebook and Twitter deal with the same kinds of hoaxes, spam and hate speech every day, and the sites have spent billions of dollars assembling content-moderation teams and artificial-intelligence systems to target problematic posts, with mixed results.
Parler and Gab, two conservative social media sites, keep alleged Russian disinformation up, despite report But Parler spurns the idea of moderators altogether, instead appointing a “community jury” of 200 volunteers who review user-reported posts and can vote for removal. While Peikoff said the company was “designed from the ground up” to prevent spam and disinformation, its techniques are fairly rudimentary, including banning unverified users from posting links in comments and requiring users to sign up with a phone number.
Online tricksters have already found ways to wreak havoc with the site’s own tools.
The site’s executives said they expect their user base will expand over time — both in numbers and political viewpoints — and they have needled the competition with trash-talk sites, such as
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