The World Economic Forum Calls For Regulators and Tech firms To Use Its Definitions of “Hate Speech,” “Misinformation,” and More
The World Economic Forum (WEF) continues to quietly work on putting itself, and a bunch of massive partner corporations at the center of redefining, and if need be, defining the world we live in whether it s about artificial intelligence, or online censorship.
The informal Switzerland-based group gathering representatives of global elites has repeatedly shown interest in coming up with a variety of essential standards that should, from its point of view, be universally accepted and implemented as the last word on any of these subjects.
When it comes to justifying online censorship, Big Tech s social platforms habitually avoid explaining what it is they mean when they delete content and deplatform people because of misinformation, hate speech, etc, where such things begin and end, and who makes such decisions, based on what authority.
Not least because of this lack of clarity, many people suspect that these sites avoid explaining themselves because there is nothing to explain the censorship decisions are arbitrary, designed to serve a policy or a narrative rather than combat misinformation and the like.
All this undermines their trustworthiness but, WEF to the rescue, or at least so it hopes. The organization said on its website that it or rather, what it calls its Global Coalition for Digital Safety has produced a document called, Typology of Online Harms.
Ugh.