Tech & Society

The Algorithm Is the Enemy

brendenj

“Russia spent about $100,000 on Facebook ads in 2016. That is the number. A hundred thousand dollars. The Internet Research Agency's entire budget for ”

Blame the People Not the Platform

coldfront42

“I am 24. I grew up on this stuff. Instagram since I was 13, Twitter since I was 15, TikTok since college. So I want to push back on the framing that s”

Pump the Brakes

VelocityTom

“In March 2023, the Future of Life Institute published an open letter signed by Elon Musk, Stuart Russell, Yoshua Bengio, and over 1,000 other research”

Government Cannot Keep Up

coldfront42

“The pharmaceutical analogy is the one I hear most often on this side of the argument and I think it fails for a specific reason: drugs are administere”

Sunlight is Disinfectant

xld992

“In 2021 the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen provided internal documents to the Wall Street Journal showing that Facebook's internal research fou”

Regulatory Overreach

KnottyKate

“The Facebook/Instagram example is real and alarming. I do not dispute it. But I want to separate two questions: should platforms be more accountable f”