[jwarden]

Note that I am aware of. But me and some colleagues at social-protoclols.org have have written a number of articles on the subject.

For example, here's an article on using Mechanism Design to solve the problem of dishonesty and promote "truthtelling" in social networks: https://social-protocols.org/truthtelling-games/

And here's a writeup on our "Global Brain" algorithm: https://social-protocols.org/global-brain/