{"id":2957,"date":"2021-09-24T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/facebook-and-twitter-should-use-volunteer-moderators-says-wikipedia-founder\/"},"modified":"2021-09-24T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T05:54:00","slug":"facebook-and-twitter-should-use-volunteer-moderators-says-wikipedia-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/facebook-and-twitter-should-use-volunteer-moderators-says-wikipedia-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Twitter \u2018should use volunteer moderators\u2019 says Wikipedia founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Wales says social media companies should follow the digital encyclopedia\u2019s approach<\/p>\n<p>Facebook and Twitter should adopt Wikipedia\u2019s approach to battling online abuse and misinformation by deploying thousands of volunteer moderators to monitor controversial posts, according to the digital encyclopedia\u2019s founder.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Wales said the scale of the problem facing social media companies was underlined when he had to personally ask Twitter\u2019s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, to deal with a particularly vicious online troll, after the company\u2019s initial response was to do nothing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/sep\/23\/facebook-and-twitter-should-use-volunteer-moderators-says-jimmy-wales\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9d7ddd0aa689166fa36c60ad41ffae793c234107\/0_573_3049_1828\/master\/3049.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=59a5236341a35f0a70f6d2a1e32b6606\" title=\"Facebook and Twitter \u2018should use volunteer moderators\u2019 says Wikipedia founder\" \/>Jimmy Wales says social media companies should follow the digital encyclopedia\u2019s approach<br \/>\nFacebook and Twitter should adopt Wikipedia\u2019s approach to battling online abuse and misinformation by deploying thousands of volunteer moderators to monitor controversial posts, according to the digital encyclopedia\u2019s founder.<br \/>\nJimmy Wales said the scale of the problem facing social media companies was underlined when he had to personally ask Twitter\u2019s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, to deal with a particularly vicious online troll, after the company\u2019s initial response was to do nothing. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Wales says social media companies should follow the digital encyclopedia\u2019s approach Facebook and Twitter should adopt Wikipedia\u2019s approach to battling online abuse and misinformation by deploying thousands of volunteer moderators to monitor controversial posts, according to the digital encyclopedia\u2019s founder. Jimmy Wales said the scale of the problem facing social media companies was underlined &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/facebook-and-twitter-should-use-volunteer-moderators-says-wikipedia-founder\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook and Twitter \u2018should use volunteer moderators\u2019 says Wikipedia founder<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}