I think we can live our whole lives happy without academia's take on Facebook, but otherwise wholeheartedly agree with this critique.https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1453028053802631170 …
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There is an enormous glut of social scientists out there, and a lot of the calls for "proper oversight" of Big Tech amount to a scheme to divert tech profits into a sinecure for academics, who would embed within these companies and produce reports until a comfortable retirementpic.twitter.com/fInnSWJJf7
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I think the goal of eradicating this business model is ill-served by further institutionalizing it, and I think it is particularly bad news to create a university-social media complex in the current circumstances of an electorate so heavily polarized along educational lines.
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Princeton PhD says it's time for Facebook to bring academics in the loop to solve all these problems, maybe endow a few chairs why not. I say people are going to need a fast, convenient way to bookmark all this groundbreaking academic research!https://techpolicy.press/journalists-are-exposing-facebooks-problems-well-need-academics-to-solve-them/ …
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My point is Facebook doesn't have to continue to try to discredit academics by paying them directly. All they need to do is make Social Media Studies a thriving discipline—with all the firewalls in the world to guarantee objectivity—and their business model will be ineradicable.
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