Platform Governance Research Lab

The Platform Governance Research Lab is a research group focused on curbing disinformation through market solutions at Boston University.

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PLATFORMS NEED TO BALANCE THE RIGHTS OF SPEAKERS AND LISTENERS

If either one of the two is given preferential treatment, the other suffers.

Audiences provide platforms with reach, so platforms should be accountable to protect audiences.

Free speech is an absolutely vital right, but mechanisms for accountability are needed in exchange for reach.

Replicable Behavioral Economics Research

Our research process is divided into four steps

01

Design

Researchers design gamified experiments...

02

Deploy

Human players join a game to play the designed experiment.

03

Monitor

Data is collected from experimental activity.

04

Analyze

Data is analyzed to test hypotheses.

Areas of Work

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The Issue

When the right to free speech is abused, speakers create spam and hate while listeners find themselves in a filter bubble that results in polarization.

Our Solution: Warrants

“warrants” can help mitigate misinformation by verifying credible sources...

Our Goal

Design a two-sided experiment with buyers and sellers... BUT sellers may self-certify their claims with collateral. Buyers may buy from multiple products in marketplace based on their capital.