January 25, 2023
The vast majority of Americans feel social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram are addictive to them personally, are contributing to a national health crisis and should be regulated the way potentially harmful substances such as alcohol and tobacco are, according to a flash poll conducted late last week by …
Consider the possibility that Facebook not only can't be regulated (where are you going to find the algorithm inspectors in white coats to inspect those data centers, when hardly anyone at Facebook, Zuck included, has a full grip on how the whole mess does what it does?); but that it may be unfixable, by design.
I wrote about this here, three years ago: https://dsearls.medium.com/the-human-solution-to-facebooks-machine-produced-problems-also-won-t-work-3364656bc257
No disclosure of how the survey was conducted, leading questions, who responded....the usual Mandese clickbait....
There you go again @DanCiccione. It's fully disclosed in the source line, which has always been our style. And we link back to Pollfish for anyone who wants to understand and vet their platform. You should try reading our stories before inaccurately criticizing them.