The authors show exposure to false or inflammatory content is low for most users but heavily concentrated among a small fringe. They propose holding platforms accountable for the high‑consumption tail and expanding researcher access and data transparency to evaluate risks and interventions.
— Focusing policy on extreme‑exposure tails reframes moderation from broad, average‑user controls to targeted, risk‑based governance that better aligns effort with harm.
BeauHD
2026.01.10
78% relevant
Experts in the piece emphasize concentrated harms in fast‑moving events where a small set of high‑exposure users and creators amplify synthetic content; this aligns with the proposal to focus regulation on the heavy‑exposure tails rather than broad, population‑level censorship.
2026.01.05
70% relevant
Although Heath focuses on elite catastrophism, his argument complements the policy proposal to target the high‑exposure tails of misinformation rather than broad criminalization—he provides the political reason why enforcement must be narrowly targeted and evidence‑based.
2026.01.04
85% relevant
The Advisory endorses a targeted, risk‑based response to health misinformation (a 'whole‑of‑society' approach), which maps onto the existing proposal to focus policy on the small high‑exposure tail rather than broad platform censorship; the Surgeon General is the named actor pushing that tactical reframing for health threats.
el gato malo
2025.11.30
62% relevant
By stressing that a small set of concentrated influence operations and psyops can overwhelm public sense‑making, the piece supports the policy tilt in the existing idea: focus enforcement and transparency on the high‑exposure 'tails' rather than blunt, platform‑wide censorship.
2024.06.05
100% relevant
Nature perspective’s recommendation to prioritize accountability for 'the tails of the distribution' and to increase platform transparency and external collaborations.