SIO is a cross-disciplinary laboratory, within Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center, for the study of abuse in information technologies, with a focus on the misuse of social media
SIO statement
- SIO founded in June 2019
- Claim that they are open organizations (along with the EIP) because they publish blog posts and reports to the public
- EIP did not take actions against the Hunter Biden laptop story
- EIP did not control or label posts themselves The EIP and VP provided public factual findings to multiple entities, including government agencies and social media platforms, but had no control over content moderation, censorship, or labeling posts. Emails released in the Twitter Files demonstrate that Twitter’s staff examined any reports sent to them to see if the content was violative of their policies and took no action in cases where they felt that Twitter’s existing policies were not violated.
- EIP created summer of 2020, before most critiquing by media of DHS’s Disinformation Governance Board
- EIP received grant from National Science Foundation (independent gov org.) for $748,437 over 5y
- EIP has no ability to “remove or label tweets or other posts"
- "EIP did not make recommendations to the platforms about what actions they should take”
- EIP did not target conservatives, misinformation disproportionately from right-wingers and President Trump
- Progressives also had violations
the EIP had no ability to censor or eliminate social media posts; it simply identified potentially policy-violative posts to social media platforms. https://arc.net/l/quote/lwbvsuld