Prior Postings
The U.K.’s recently appointed secretary of state for digital, Nadine Dorries, has signalled she wants to take a tougher line on social media platforms than her predecessor — telling a parliamentary committee she’s looking at speeding up the application of criminal sanctions for br…
There is reason to believe that the business models of social media firms are causing serious problems for U.S. society as a whole.
It's getting harder to avoid the algorithm.
It’s a mess in there
Twitter doesn’t know what causes this issue
In September 2021, former Facebook employee Frances Haugen leaked thousands of the company’s internal documents to the Wall Street Journal. This information consequently sparked a bipartisan conversation about the harms of social media. “Facebook consistently resolved those conflicts in favor of its own profits. The result has been a system that amplifies division, extremism...
A few months ago, a friend of mine logged into her Instagram on my phone. Later in the day, I found myself killing time by scrolling through social media having forgotten that she was still logged in.
Mr. Chairman Blumenthal: (00:04) [crosstalk 00:00:04]. Mr. Chairman Blumenthal: (02:54) So, welcome my colleagues and I want to thank Ranking Member Senato
How Creator Platforms Are Eroding Their Most Important Resource
Fixing how central they are to the platform’s content moderation could be the answer to its woes.