We've been trying for more than a decade to get them to be more transparent and accessible. The reality has been foot-dragging and obscurity. It's not just my experience. They do cooperate, sometimes, with "elite" academics, but not strong critics.
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Something that seems to be missing from this discussion is how FB draws all the heat while other platforms with less transparency (Youtube) skate by. Actual regulation would fix this, but the current mode of selective hearings only exacerbates the "Give a little, give a lot"
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Don't disagree. I talked a lot about YouTube. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html … (This is one of many pieces/work I tried to do on YouTube. Again, insiders did not come up with this except one engineer I know of inside who got pushed out as result).
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No matter what you think of the tech, that FB became an immensely powerful at-scale destabilizing force for society is now a simple fact. In essence, social media became a weapon of mass destruction that efficiently targets & wrecks shared truths that democracy depends on.
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It's a good point, but I'm not sure the relationship between transparency, outcomes and lobbying is as good as you assume.http://congressionalresearch.org/Citations.html
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