SaTC: Small: Core: Using Markets to Address Manipulated Information Online

SaTC：小：核心：利用市场来解决在线信息被操纵的问题

• 批准号: 2217770
• 负责人: Marshall Van Alstyne
• 金额: $ 55万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2217770&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SaTC; Small; Core; Using; Markets

Societies function poorly without free speech. They also function poorly when members cannot agree on basic facts. This research seeks to discover technology-aided social structures that minimize the adverse impact of confusion about facts while promoting free speech. To accomplish these goals, the project develops, prototypes, and tests market mechanisms to dissuade sources of information from dissembling, to decentralize detection of false claims, and to change the incentive structure under which producing false claims is cheaper than producing honest news. It also seeks to decentralize governance so that no single party, neither a government nor a private firm, has content moderation authority. Finally, it provides a principled basis for updating Internet and media law concerning platform liability exemptions for user-generated content.The proposed mechanism extends established economic theories of signaling and screening that allow authors to credibly signal information regarding the veracity of their claims while helping recipients believe which claims are honest. This mechanism puts the burden of proof on the author, in contrast to extant mechanisms that put the burden of proof on the recipients of information or on the platform. Testing is accomplished in a laboratory setting, using randomized control trials, the gold standard for establishing causality. Experimentation tests, for example, whether more honest candidates are more likely to win a tournament and whether more honest firms can sell more products. The claims made by authors will be decentralized. Based on market design principles, the detection and the adjudication of false claims will also be decentralized. Security, privacy, and anonymity is proposed to be enforced by technology advances in the developed system.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

没有言论自由，社会就无法正常运转。 当成员国不能就基本事实达成一致时，它们的作用也很差。 这项研究旨在发现技术辅助的社会结构，在促进言论自由的同时，最大限度地减少对事实的混淆的不利影响。为了实现这些目标，该项目开发，原型，并测试市场机制，劝阻信息来源的伪装，分散虚假声明的检测，并改变激励结构下，生产虚假声明比生产诚实的新闻更便宜。它还寻求分散治理，以便任何一方，无论是政府还是私营公司，都没有内容审核权限。最后，它为更新有关用户生成内容的平台责任豁免的互联网和媒体法律提供了原则性基础。拟议的机制扩展了信号和筛选的既定经济理论，允许作者合理地发出关于其声明真实性的信息，同时帮助接受者相信哪些声明是诚实的。这种机制将举证责任放在作者身上，而现有机制将举证责任放在信息接收者或平台上。测试是在实验室环境中完成的，使用随机对照试验，建立因果关系的金标准。例如，实验测试是否更诚实的候选人更有可能赢得比赛，以及是否更诚实的公司可以销售更多的产品。作者提出的要求将分散处理。 根据市场设计原则，对虚假索赔的发现和裁定也将下放。安全性、隐私性和匿名性被提议通过所开发系统中的技术进步来实施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估而被认为值得支持。