Notices by New_ Public (wearenew_public@mastodon.social), page 4

"The internet only really works if you can trust it," says The Atlantic CEO @nxthompson. A look at three factors that may be contributing to a loss of trust in online news.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nicholasxthompson_mostinterestingthingintech-activity-7148456165792780288-22kW

Survey: support for banning TikTok has fallen dramatically overall. About a quarter of those surveyed oppose a government ban, but half of the teens surveyed do.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/12/11/a-declining-share-of-adults-and-few-teens-support-a-us-tiktok-ban/

Meta's Oversight Board may be a fake court, but that doesn't mean its "cases" aren't knotty and fascinating.

Here, the OB says that the offline harm of the content had diminished after three weeks, and since it was newsworthy, it was worth keeping up.

https://oversightboard.com/news/1102876037538187-oversight-board-overturns-meta-s-decision-in-haitian-police-station-video-case/

Pew Pew! More excellent research about how teens spend their time online, with few changes from last year.

* YouTube still dominates
* TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram are still popular
* FB and Twitter are far less popular than 10 years ago

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/12/11/teens-social-media-and-technology-2023/

In reviewing the research on norms, we found that one of the key topics is visibility.

Developers can proactively reward or increase the visibility of prosocial norms and behavior on platforms with these visibility-centric design features:

https://newpublic.substack.com/p/understanding-how-norms-shape-digital