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Jamie, these are some really solid suggestions. I especially like the idea of the data dividend. Makes sense to return some of that value to the user while providing an opt-out feature.

I have also thought that social media companies could utilize a crowd-sourcing mechanism to reduce the reach of false and misleading information: https://www.lianeon.org/p/a-clever-way-to-counter-misinformation

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I believe Jaron Lanier first came up with the idea, though I was introduced to it through Andrew Yang. Your piece is interesting. I can see problems with that sort of crowd-sourcing, but the measure of an idea is not "does it have problems?", it's "does it have *fewer* or less severe problems than the status quo", and with that in mind I'd be interested to see this tested out somewhere. Reddit sort of does it, but Reddit is a very different format, and the nature of subreddits leads to echochamber thinking where votes are often just partisan. I wonder what you think of Twitter's newish "community notes." I have found that to be most useful, so far.

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I think its worth trying as well. Reddit is really just a handful of echochambers, the subs are not truly open enough for this to work.

I like Twitters community notes. I appreciate the addition of context on certain new articles/postings.

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