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Lisa Schirch @lisa-schirch.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

A proposal with policy recommendations for supporting prosocial platforms - governing tech design goes "upstream" as opposed to the "downstream" regulations that govern content. toda.org/assets/files...

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New_ Public @newpublic.org · 09/07/2025

“Platform design is a silent pilot steering human behavior.” Friend of New_ Public @lisa-schirch.bsky.social warns profit-driven social media design is leading us into an era of "techno-autocracy." But in the right hands, platform design can foster democratic engagement and civic participation.

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Social media can support or undermine democracy – it comes down to how it’s designed

Social media design influences human behavior, and the Big Tech platforms use it to boost profits – and their owners’ political agendas. Some smaller platforms are using design to support democracy.

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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Democracy is in crisis globally, and technology is playing a role. Most large platforms optimize their designs for profit, not community or democracy. (@lisa-schirch.bsky.social‬) theconversation.com/social-media...

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Social media can support or undermine democracy – it comes down to how it’s designed

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Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

[New OpEd] @lisa-schirch.bsky.social I @notredame.bsky.social argues for a reimagining of governance frameworks for content moderation. How can a prosocial tech design for digital platforms steer human behaviour towards non-harmful or healthy communities? Read: policyreview.info/articles/new...

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Plurality Institute @pluralityinstitute.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

At our LLMs and Public Discourse event, University of Notre Dame's Lisa Schirch and Kristina Radivojevic will present Training an LLM Co-Pilot & Building a Social Media Sandbox. 📅 Thursday February 27th | 6:30pm PT / 9:30pm ET lu.ma/2aaufseh?tk=...

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LLMs & Public Discourse: Livestream · Luma

About the event: Please join us for a showcase on LLMs and Public Discourse, co-hosted by Plurality Institute and The Council on Technology and Social Cohesion…

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Plurality Institute @pluralityinstitute.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Our LLMs and Public Discourse event, co-hosted by The Council on Technology and Social Cohesion, will be livestreamed. Join us Thursday, February 27th @ 6:30pm PT / 9:30pm ET: lu.ma/2aaufseh?tk=...

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LLMs & Public Discourse: Livestream · Luma

About the event: Please join us for a showcase on LLMs and Public Discourse, co-hosted by Plurality Institute and The Council on Technology and Social…

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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Trump wants to rehire nuclear safety workers who were fired except he doesn’t have their contact information. The workers were incompetently fired due to Musk and his DOGE cuts. #TheShitShiwContinues #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory apple.news/AdqfW8BLsR3m...

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Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them — NBC News

The individuals, who work in an agency that oversees the nation's nuclear stockpile, had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12/02/2025

"Tech billionaires, who already had enormous power, helped underwrite a winning presidential campaign in ways that would have been illegal just a few elections ago." — @larrynorden.bsky.social & @danw329.bsky.social on the rise of the "broligarchy" and what we can do about it

time.com

The Rise of America’s Broligarchy and What to Do About It

Campaign finance rules and checks on presidential power are collapsing just as leading tech giants have gained power.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 05/02/2025

Elon Musk is systematically seizing control over our nation’s communications, financial systems and data and military infrastructures. Musk isn’t a fourth branch of government, just another Silicon Valley who wants to be dictator of the world.

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has returned from a trip to El Salvador where he secured an agreement from that country's president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality — including American citizens — offering to hold them in the country's sprawling maximum-security facility…

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Julie Zebrak @juliezebrak.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It’s not entirely clear what the purpose of these raids is, but from the outside it appears that DOGE is mainly concerned at this point with amassing huge stores of data, from payment information to private personnel records. @mattbaidc.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | What is Elon Musk doing? Not slashing the budget.

DOGE isn’t getting anywhere near $2 trillion in spending cuts. Here’s a plan that would.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Lawsuits matter. More of this, please.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Warren, from earlier — “This is the system that makes sure that your grandpa gets his social security check on time. This is the system that makes sure that your mom's doctor gets paid for her Medicare exam. Elon Musk wants the power to turn that on, to turn that off, as Elon Musk decides.”

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The signs. “Unelected autocrat” “No oligarchs, no kings” “Muskrats are an invasive species”

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

House and Senate Democrats are showing up in droves. Raskin, Pressley, Warren, Van Hollen to name a few. Schumer too. The crowd erupted into a chant of “Shut down the Senate!” while he made his exit.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

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Lisa Schirch @lisa-schirch.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

An explanation of the trade war, the ICE raids, and what must be done to stop the oligarchy from dismantling our government.

snyder.substack.com

The Logic of Destruction

And how to resist it

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loreleikelly @loreleikelly.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Democracy with a formidable social conscience is the only way forward. #delibtech #civictech #citizenassembly @lisa-schirch.bsky.social

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Lisa Schirch @lisa-schirch.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Every day in the last week feels as devastating as 9/11 as we hear more about the felon's circus and executive orders. But instead of Al Qaeda, it is our own government doing this to our neighbors. And it is our own neighbors who elected this tyrant.

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Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The Trump administration's latest assault on Indigenous rights is a shameful continuation of centuries of betrayal and oppression. They are living in fear - and our past proves they should. rebrand.ly/l7ee325

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Navajo Nation leaders address reports of ICE detaining tribal citizens

Social media reports of Navajo citizens being detained by ICE prompted Navajo leaders to explore ways to protect their people.

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loreleikelly @loreleikelly.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

2 Here's the letter that 40 of us who work on peacebuilding technologies sent to the Committee on House Administration last May, seeking to get nonprofit, B Corps & university based deliberative platforms into the vendor pool: HT @lisa-schirch.bsky.social and docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Deliberative Technology Letter in support of House Committee rec 187

Hon Brian Steil, Chair Committee on House Administration 1309 Longworth House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Hon Joe Morelle, Ranking Member Committee on House Administration 1309 Longworth H...

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Kai Degner @kaidegner.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

There is no mandate. 122,000ish votes in 3 states. That’s how close it was. DT won but with less than 50% of the vote (third party got a couple percent). There is no mandate for Project 2025 or for suspending the constitution and institutions. That’s not a story or take away based on reality.

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Golda Velez @goldavelez.org · 16/06/2024

#amreading - @mariaressa.bsky.social 's latest book, she really understands how to grapple with dictators disinfo and attacks - she recruited 90000 citizen journalists in the phillippines who exposed key events. well written, powerful and timely read

pic of the book "how to stand up to a dictator" by maria ressa

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Lisa Schirch @lisa-schirch.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The term "America First" originated in the 1940s, when extremist right-wing groups did not want the US to be involved in WWII. They wanted"America First" and did not want to stop the Holocaust or the spread of fascism. White supremacist groups have embraced “America First” rhetoric.

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