As a former insider at social media companies, I can attest their action is not the result of sudden virtue but rather of a lack of moral fortitude for years.
Surveying users to train its algorithms has enormous promise, if only Facebook would risk taking a short-term hit in order to be more socially responsible.
By
Robert Lindsay
Lindsay is a co-founder of Hustle and a former Facebook data scientist.
Under the Biden administration, we risk reruns of past telco battles when what we need is new focus on internet-specific issues and a government agency to oversee them.
By
Robert Lindsay
Lindsay is a co-founder of Hustle and a former Facebook data scientist.