22 January 2024Research commissioned by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and Uplift has found that almost three-quarters (74%) of the Irish population believe that social media algorithms, which select content and insert it into users’ online feeds, should be regulated more strictly. The findings come in the wake of a major step taken by Coimisiún na Meán, Ireland’s new online regulator. Its new draft rules say that recommender systems based on intimately profiling people are turned off by default on social media video platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok. [4]The European Commission recently reported that Big Tech’s recommender systems aided Russian’s disinformation campaign about its invasion of Ukraine. Users – not Big Tech’s algorithms – should have the freedom to decide what they see and share online.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 22, 2024 12:58 UTC