Some thoughts for politicians and political parties.

Stop communicating via platforms that amplify violence, hate and lies and that do not properly engage with your concerns.

Delete your accounts.

If you are a political party, create a fediverse/mastodon instance under your own domain and give access to it to both your elected politicians and party members. Communicate via your platform before any other.

If you do this, the media will follow.

If you are a publicly funded body or news organisation. The same applies.

Consider applying the know your customer financial regulation rules to social media companies that deliver content via an algorithm or Ai driven systems. Seeing as most people have bank accounts, this doesn’t seem too difficult an ask.

At the very least, restrict the ability of accounts whose owner has not been verified to amplify or interact with others and do not allow messages from these accounts to be amplified, interacted with or shared.

Just like financial and tax audits, consider algorithm/Ai audits to properly understand these systems and to hold the individuals who design and authorise them to account.