This unit examines policy, governance, and market-design solutions to reduce online misinformation and restore healthy information ecosystems. Students will study legal reforms, regulatory tools, organizational designs, and revenue models and apply them to create actionable governance plans that build trust, protect children, and promote fair competition.
Learning Objectives
- Analyze how information-harm mechanisms (e.g., the Streisand Effect, misleading warnings, hybrid reviews) interact with platform incentives and identify at least three mitigation strategies aligned with Restoration Networking principles.
- Evaluate regulatory and legal reforms (e.g., Section 230 adjustments, antitrust measures, child-safety protections, First Amendment considerations, AI oversight) and produce a 2–3 page policy brief recommending a balanced, legally feasible approach.
- Apply governance and market-design tools (third-party certification, certification programs, user advisory boards, ethical advertising, revenue-sharing, freemium and featured-content models) to design a restorative platform governance plan that specifies revenue streams, trust-building mechanisms, and accountability safeguards.
- Demonstrate stakeholder implementation planning by creating a step-by-step Restoration Networking roadmap (including an institute, a constitution, certification pathways, and advisory-board roles) with measurable success metrics for trust, competition, content quality, and child safety.
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 27 Lessons
- 30 hours
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- Unit 3 — Restorative Platform Governance and Policy27
- 1.1True Lies20 mins
- 1.2The Streisand Effect20 mins
- 1.3A Misleading Warning20 mins
- 1.4Restoration Networking for Information Seekers20 mins
- 1.5Hybrid Reviews20 mins
- 1.6The Myth of Inevitable Dominance20 mins
- 1.7Change Comes from the Outside20 mins
- 1.8Don’t Give Up, Embrace Alternatives20 mins
- 1.9Customers Willingly Pay for Healthy Choices20 mins
- 1.10Reward Customers with Dividends20 mins
- 1.11Third-Party Certifiers Build Trust20 mins
- 1.12Regulations Work with Real Teeth20 mins
- 1.13The Restoration Networking Constitution20 mins
- 1.14Bringing It All Together20 mins
- 1.15Protect Kids from the Social Media Abyss20 mins
- 1.16Reform Section 230 to Safeguard Fair Competition20 mins
- 1.17Respect the First Amendment Rights of Social Media Companies20 mins
- 1.18Antitrust Reforms to Take On Monopolies20 mins
- 1.19Taming AI20 mins
- 1.20The Restoration Networking Constitution20 mins
- 1.21The Restoration Networking Institute20 mins
- 1.22Restoration Networking Certification20 mins
- 1.23Restoration Networking User Advisory Boards20 mins
- 1.24Freemium20 mins
- 1.25Ethical Advertising20 mins
- 1.26Revenue Sharing with Creators and Page/Group Owners20 mins
- 1.27Featured Pages and Groups20 mins
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