To limit the power and reach of Facebook, US regulators need to take citizens' data rights more seriously than they do content moderation or even antitrust
It seems increasingly likely that antitrust and content moderation tools aren't up to the task. Here's what we do next.
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@elibietti
Elettra Bietti
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As always, a great analysis. I am less dismissive of antitrust, see it as coextensive with anti-monopoly, and ‘radical reform’ only makes sense if it takes data protection, infrastructural regulation and bottom-up innovation seriously https://twitter.com/...
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@statistacharts
Statista
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What are your thoughts on Facebook's position in the #socialmedia market? Data from a Statista Global Consumer Survey, shows, Facebook plays a dominant role in the U.S. social media landscape with 73% of U.S. online consumers saying they used Facebook. https://www.statista.com/..…
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@oliverdarcy
Oliver Darcy
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“What if, after years of scholarship and journalism exposing the dominance, abrogations, duplicity, arrogance, and incompetence of Facebook, none of the policy tools we have come to rely on to rein in corporations make any difference at all?” https://www.wired.com/...
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@evan_greer
Evan Greer
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“Imagine if we kept our focus on how Facebook actually works and why it's as rich and powerful as it is. If we did that, instead of fluttering our attention to the latest example of bad content flowing across the platform” 👏 this one is a must-read https://twitter.com/...
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@justinhendrix
Justin Hendrix
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“Facebook was designed for better animals than humans. It was designed for beings that don't hate, exploit, harass, or terrorize each other—like golden retrievers. But we humans are nasty beasts. So we have to regulate and design our technologies to correct for our weaknesses.” h…
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@marechalphd
@marechalphd
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If you only read one thing about tech policy this weekend, read this. “The problem with Facebook is Facebook.” The implication: we need strict, and strictly-enforced comprehensive privacy legislation at the federal law. https://twitter.com/...
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@sivavaid
Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan
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I wrote something: https://www.wired.com/...
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@willoremus
Will Oremus
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This is the clearest, most concise, and most persuasive articulation yet of @sivavaid's longstanding thesis that “the problem with Facebook is Facebook”—and that the leading proposed solutions are wholly inadequate to address that problem. Worth a read: https://www.wired.com/...