Countering Inside Threat Actors in Algorithm-Based Media

The risks of insider threats and social media disinformation have independently received much attention in recent years. Missing from the conversation is discussion of insider threats inside social media organizations. This paper considers the risks of insider threats in social media organizations and proposes ZK-Sedai, an approach leveraging current and evolving techniques for zero-knowledge verifiable computing that will grant consumers verifiable evidence of fairness on the part of social media organizations without requiring undue exposure of proprietary organizational information.