Kleros and Decentralized Justice for Social Media Disputes

This presentation explores how Kleros, a decentralized justice platform, can be applied to content moderation on social media. It introduces the concept of decentralized justice, highlighting the limitations of traditional methods and how Kleros uses crowdsourced arbitration with cryptographic tokens to resolve disputes transparently and efficiently. The deck covers applications like combating misinformation, moderating toxic online behavior, and ensuring fair enforcement of community guidelines, presenting a vision for a more objective and decentralized approach to content moderation in the digital age.

1. Decentralized Justice
in Social Media
kleros.io
Federico Ast
CEO of Kleros
@federicoast
@kleros_io

2. Kleros and the Birth of
Decentralized Justice

3. The Contract

5. Frustration
?
Go to
international
arbitration
over $1,000?

6. How it works
with Kleros

7. Alice
Bob
Smart
Contract
Arbitrator

8. Jurors

9. Alice
Bob
Smart
Contract
Arbitrator
Alice
Wins

10. Juror Selection

12. Pinakion (PNK)
Ethereum Cryptographic Token

17. Traditional
Methods

Kleros
Resolution
Time
Resolution
Cost
Transparency

21. Kleros White Paper (2017)

22. Decentralized
Justice Against
Misinformation on
Social Media

24. A Crowdsourced
Approach Against
Misinformation

25. Pythia: Decentralized
and Verifiable
“Community Notes”

27. Drinking
bleach
proven to
cure Covid.

28. Drinking
bleach
proven to
cure Covid.
FAKE!

29. Drinking
bleach
proven to
cure Covid.
$

32. FAKE NEWS LIST
Drinking
bleach.
Biden is US
president.
NEWS 3

33. FAKE NEWS LIST
Drinking
bleach.
Biden is US
president.
NEWS 3
FAKE!

34. FAKE NEWS LIST
Drinking
bleach.
Biden is US
president.
NEWS 3
FAKE!
CHALLENGE

35. FAKE NEWS LIST
Drinking
bleach.
Biden is US
president.
NEWS 3
FAKE!
$

36. Biden is US
president.
IT’S FAKE!
IT’S NOT
FAKE!
Submitter Challenger
Jury

37. Biden is US
president.
Submitter Challenger
Jury

38. FAKE NEWS LIST
Drinking
bleach.
Biden is US
president.
NEWS 3
FAKE!
$

41. A
Cross-Ideological
Agreement on
Truth

42. ????????????

43. ????????????

44. Can decentralized
justice help us reach
a neutral point of
view?

45. ?

46. Kleros Moderate:
Fighting Toxic
Behavior in Online
Communities

49. Fair and transparent
moderation of social
media channels

50. Community
Guidelines

54. *@#%!

55. *@#%!
REPORT

57. *@#%!
REPORT
CONFIRMATION
CONFIRMATION

58. Jury
Vs.
Defenders Reporters

60. Jury
Vs.
Defenders Reporters

61. JAIL

62. JAIL

63. JAIL
$

64. The Future of Free
Speech in the
Decentralized Age

65. More
objective
More
subjective
Fake
Accounts
Spam
Violent/
Graphic
Content
Nudity
Bullying
Harassment
Hate Speech
Open Source AI Kleros

66. Decentralized Social
Media Platforms
+
Open Source
Moderation Algorithms
+
Content Moderation Based on
Economic Incentives

67. Decentralized Justice
for Social Media
kleros.io
Federico Ast
CEO of Kleros
@federicoast
@kleros_io