Two members of Congress, @RepAnnaEshoo & @Malinowski, just sent well-researched letters to the CEOs of Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter, urging them to fix their algorithms that promote conspiracy theories and push people to political extremes.
The letters to FB and Google:
The letters to FB and Google:
And here's the letter to @jack:
Some of us have shouted this for years, so this sentence from Congress is refreshing:
The algorithms sort and spread "information to users by feeding them the content most likely to reinforce their existing political biases, especially those rooted in anger, anxiety and fear."
The algorithms sort and spread "information to users by feeding them the content most likely to reinforce their existing political biases, especially those rooted in anger, anxiety and fear."
For those asking: Reps. Eshoo and Malinowski introduced a bill in October that would amend Section 230 to hold platforms liable if their algorithms promoted content "involving interference with civil rights" and "acts of international terrorism."
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