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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It does seem, from the reporting, that there's almost a consensus from the in-house social scientists that just dumbly restricting virality would avoid a lot of the avoidable harm, but a set of in-house intuitions laundered through reporters is much less useful than
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those same intuitions and data knowledge being passed-through to social scientists who can actually work with the data.
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Okay! I didn't come to Twitter to fight!
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As one of these academics, even an informal “chat” with Facebook can ruin our integrity. It’s really heavily used by them to ethics-wash what they do (in my particular field of tech ethics) and then make any critics questionable because they have been “consulted”.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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