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<em>As world leaders gather at the </em><a href="https://medium.com/@weforum" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="7d44f110eb09" data-action-value="7d44f110eb09" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" target="_blank"><em>World Economic Forum </em></a><em>2018 in Davos, Facebook is trying to redefine its purpose as a meeting place for the world’s population. It understands the tremendous impact of social media on influencing actual outcomes and in some way is trying to curtail its largess. While nobody denies that social media can be a force for the worse, there is also a need to think of a forum where the wisdom of the crowd can agree on and monitor sweeping global changes such as technology. This article lays out the need for a global social media forum where the world can gather to agree on and to provide feedback on policies designed to tackle global mega trends such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), climate change and inequality. There are numerous studies that layout solutions to tackling world problems but very few discussing the need for a grass root level, real time feedback mechanism that tracks the views of those directly impacted by change.</em>