@EU_Commission su Mastodon fortunatamente non ci sono algoritmi.

@EU_Commission The same could be said of the Western mainstream media - what can be done to stop them from lying?

@EU_Commission ahaaaa... the is bad and only a tiny bit good

#fashernista are not going to help, and this is what you will end up with filling your European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency with.

#slowtrainwreck #EU

@EU_Commission
This is great news! Also you're posting this and I am reading this on a social network that doesn't have an algorithm, a corporate/centralised structure or advertisers to satisfy.

So part of me is saying hmmm gee maybe there's some solutions to all this mess?

@EU_Commission good to see this finally! We should enforce the opening of algorithms that are relevant for promoting or suppressing content in social media.
Meanwhile avoid closed source plattforms (like Twitter, Facebook, etc.) and move to open source (e.g. Mastodon) - anyway the best thing to do...

@EU_Commission Do you want (really) support algorithmic transparency in #socialmedia ?
The best transparency for algorithms is no algorithms. Are the corpo-media ready for this ? Of course not.
So support the #fediverse more.
#FuckCorpoGoFediverse .

@EU_Commission how about:

“Online platforms must be transparent and accountable for what they decide they’re going to promote through their algorithms. It's time we make this happen.”

It’s not the algorithms that decide: it’s the people who write them. Maybe one day we’ll have true AI sentience and the algorithms will make the decisions, but we have not yet reached that point…

@EU_Commission There's plenty of information out there on how build recommendation systems (it's statistics, not rocket science). And disinformation and hate spread fairly freely long before social media.

If you really want to make a difference, support teaching people Critical Thinking and Media Literacy skills.

@EU_Commission would be great to have an algorithm declaration on every platform, rather like the cookie declaration, that gives a summary of how algorithms are used there - in layperson’s terms. and make it subject to legislation like GDPR.

if it’s too complicated or the owner of the platform can’t provide a simple, comprehensible summary because they don’t understand it themselves, it shouldn’t be operating (not talking technical details here, just content level).

@EU_Commission

A modest proposal:

One specific proposal for social media transparency - aspects of the algorithm set by statute/secondary legislation, in a specific area of social media post

We need is to clear dark money out of social media, for political advertising

This is what my modest proposal addresses ⤵️
In detail

Cheap & easy to implement
Likely to be welcomed by the major centralised privatised social media platforms

Also available as a Twitter thread https://twitter.com/gordonrlove/status/1445321168727257092

@EU_Commission

Highly important. If only the eli lilly prank as an example, let alone the past 16 years or so of societal extremism upswing that seems to be correlated with social media. Social media is powerful, and needs laws and responsible governance.

@EU_Commission

Nice spirit. But how did you show up in my feed while I’m not following this account nor any of my followings has reblogged this post?🤔

@EU_Commission Wow, thanks for boosting this, I haven't seen anything about it in Spanish newspapers

@EU_Commission I'd love to see something similar for #Canada ✌

@EU_Commission it appears to me that algorithms inevitably produce echo chambers.

@EU_Commission
Be careful with this.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F

#watchmen

@EU_Commission Youtube keeps force feeding me CNN. I don't even have an account and I turned off all personalization.

@EU_Commission
I think Twitter and the EU are about as capable. I'm on Mastodon because I decide.

@EU_Commission By definition, it is not possible to stop an algorithm from being abused. Algorithms react to data without any concept of context. They can, have, and will, always be manipulated by anyone who has something to gain from specific results because they are mindless tools. You require true intelligence to step outside the box and go "Hey wait a sec..."