>the best chance of achieving oversight of Facebook anytime soon is here in Europe, not the US. The Digital Services Act — a draft law promising to overhaul the rules for the largest online platforms — is poised for debate in the European Parliament on 8th November. The timing couldn’t be more fortuitous, which explains why Haugen is travelling to Brussels to address the European Parliament’s IMCO committee in person on the day of the originally scheduled vote.
>Years in the making, the DSA could fix Big Tech’s broken business model by introducing a range of powerful new tools that would force the world’s largest platforms to design their core mechanics — things like advertising and recommendation algorithms — with a view to their impact on society, not just the company’s bottom line.
Nobody can fix Facebook because the problem isn’t Facebook (not that Facebook doesn’t have it’s issues). The problem is human nature. Great the recommendation algorithms are rewritten, that doesn’t change people are still looking for validation of their ideas and that those articles exist. Instead they’ll follow their favorite “social influencer” and read whatever articles that person posts or head over to a place like Reddit where you can echo chamber as much as you want with mods acting to enforce that echo chamber.
You don’t need whistleblowers. Anyone on it or who has ever used it knows this. But don’t let me steal this articles clicks.
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>the best chance of achieving oversight of Facebook anytime soon is here in Europe, not the US. The Digital Services Act — a draft law promising to overhaul the rules for the largest online platforms — is poised for debate in the European Parliament on 8th November. The timing couldn’t be more fortuitous, which explains why Haugen is travelling to Brussels to address the European Parliament’s IMCO committee in person on the day of the originally scheduled vote.
>Years in the making, the DSA could fix Big Tech’s broken business model by introducing a range of powerful new tools that would force the world’s largest platforms to design their core mechanics — things like advertising and recommendation algorithms — with a view to their impact on society, not just the company’s bottom line.
Nobody can fix Facebook because the problem isn’t Facebook (not that Facebook doesn’t have it’s issues). The problem is human nature. Great the recommendation algorithms are rewritten, that doesn’t change people are still looking for validation of their ideas and that those articles exist. Instead they’ll follow their favorite “social influencer” and read whatever articles that person posts or head over to a place like Reddit where you can echo chamber as much as you want with mods acting to enforce that echo chamber.
You don’t need whistleblowers. Anyone on it or who has ever used it knows this. But don’t let me steal this articles clicks.
Yeah, no.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/europes-digital-services-act-collision-course-human-rights-0
Just ban it completely, and ban every service that Meta has.