New in Tech Policy Press, “The Web Needs a Context Layer Built on a Shared Protocol”

Years of thinking from scholars like Francis Fukuyama and Renée DiResta have gone into what are called “middleware” solutions to content moderation. With Evan Friedman from FABRIC, this is our contribution to the solution space—a standardized protocol suite to facilitate an opt-in way of seeing how different communities understand the same story, where they disagree, and where they find common ground.

In a new piece for Tech Policy Press, Social Web Foundation and FABRIC argue that context should not remain a proprietary feature trapped inside dominant platforms: it should become an open, provider-agnostic, standardized protocol that works across browsers, publishers, and social networks.

Read “The Web Needs a Context Layer Built on a Shared Protocol.”