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.

社会在没有言论自由的情况下运作较差。 当成员无法就基本事实达成共识时，它们的功能也很差。 这项研究旨在发现技术辅助的社会结构，以最大程度地减少对事实的不利影响，同时促进言论自由。为了实现这些目标，该项目开发，原型和测试市场机制，以劝阻信息来源从分散，分散对错误主张的检测，并改变产生虚假索赔比产生诚实新闻更便宜的激励结构。它还试图分散治理，以便没有任何一方，政府和私人公司都没有内容审核。最后，它为更新有关用户生成的内容的平台责任豁免的互联网和媒体法的原则基础提供了基础。拟议的机制扩展了既定的信号和筛选经济理论，使作者能够可靠地向其索赔的真实性提供信号信息，同时帮助收件人相信哪些主张是诚实的。这种机制给作者带来了举证责任，与现存的机制相比，将举证责任负担在信息接收者或平台上。测试是在实验室环境中使用随机控制试验（建立因果关系的金标准）完成的。例如，实验测试是否更诚实的候选人更有可能赢得比赛，以及更诚实的公司是否可以出售更多产品。作者提出的主张将被分散。 基于市场设计原则，对虚假索赔的检测和裁决也将被分散。提议安全性，隐私和匿名性通过开发系统的技术进步来执行。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准通过评估来支持的。