<story><title>How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online</title><url>https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/how-shadow-banning-can-silently-shift-opinion-online</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>I saw Mark Cuban advocating for any platform which shows content to children to be required to publish their algorithm. IMO it is the most logical approach to the entire discussion.</text></item><item><author>Workaccount2</author><text>The law to ban tiktok was passed because the Chinese government has direct control over the content shown to users.&lt;p&gt;All the talk about privacy and data collection were mostly to muddy the waters by bringing in all tech to the conversion, and divert attention from solely tiktok (&amp;quot;Everyone does it so why focus on tiktok?!&amp;quot;). It&amp;#x27;s still a threat, I&amp;#x27;m not trying to minimize it, but tiktok was banned primarily because of who controls the content delivered, not who is collecting the data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saalweachter</author><text>Just out of curiosity, what do people mean when they say &amp;quot;publish the algorithm&amp;quot;?  A poster-sized UML diagram?  A million lines of spaghetti code saying &amp;quot;if foo &amp;gt; 11.78 then bar += 2.6&amp;quot;?  An exhaustive design document exactly specifying the entire ranking system (which absolutely does not exist at any company)?  The ranking signals the algorithm operates on?</text></comment>
<story><title>How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online</title><url>https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/how-shadow-banning-can-silently-shift-opinion-online</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>I saw Mark Cuban advocating for any platform which shows content to children to be required to publish their algorithm. IMO it is the most logical approach to the entire discussion.</text></item><item><author>Workaccount2</author><text>The law to ban tiktok was passed because the Chinese government has direct control over the content shown to users.&lt;p&gt;All the talk about privacy and data collection were mostly to muddy the waters by bringing in all tech to the conversion, and divert attention from solely tiktok (&amp;quot;Everyone does it so why focus on tiktok?!&amp;quot;). It&amp;#x27;s still a threat, I&amp;#x27;m not trying to minimize it, but tiktok was banned primarily because of who controls the content delivered, not who is collecting the data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biftek</author><text>Sounds good in theory but how many people are actually qualified to interpret those algorithms? Average Joe on facebook is going to believe it does what ever Bob tells him it does.</text></comment>