Get in touch with any of the corresponding authors in case you are up for collaborating. We are planning to turn this into an ongoing web-based collaboration, where you all can publish your own ideas for improving social media. We will share the website in a few weeks. 7/7

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We hope this will help start a broader conversation and bring other non-experts into the conversation, including people from multiple fields and journalists who can help us broaden the conversation. 6/7

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To make a start, we wrote a white paper that assembles a wide range of ideas for modular mechanisms for improving social media. We also connect the ideas to relevant literature across multiple disciplines. Here is our white paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2610.10816 5/7

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Designing social media for democratic discourse is a formidable multidisciplinary intellectual challenge requiring contributions from philosophy, sociology, political science, psychology, computer science, and many other fields. 4/7

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Juergen Habermas explored the concept of the “public sphere”: a space for democratic deliberation outside direct state or market control. Web technology & AI have amazing potential for building a digital public sphere for democratic discourse, collective deliberation, & collective intelligence. 3/7

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