2023-03-03
Important. Pushing the mental health angle further, the @FTC should look into focus and attention management apps. Some of their ownership structures and data sharing practices are particularly 🤬 https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Teladoc Health, which runs BetterHelp, settles with the FTC for $7.8M and agrees to stop sharing data with Meta, Snap, and other companies for ad purposes
Wow! — In these kinds of cases consider the incentives to government to allow terrible things to go on long enough for a nice pile of case to accrue, then demand a cut of the tak...
2021-07-03
As always, a great analysis. I am less dismissive of antitrust, see it as coextensive with anti-monopoly, and ‘radical reform’ only makes sense if it takes data protection, infrastructural regulation and bottom-up innovation seriously https://twitter.com/...
Wired
To limit the power and reach of Facebook, US regulators need to take citizens' data rights more seriously than they do content moderation or even antitrust
It seems increasingly likely that antitrust and content moderation tools aren't up to the task. Here's what we do next.
2020-05-11
So grateful to @sivavaid for writing this piece. I wholeheartedly share his view on the FOB, which is really needed and vastly under-represented because... hype, corporate interests, First Amendment fundamentalism... https://twitter.com/...
Wired
In its quasi-judiciary role, Facebook Oversight Board is neutered from the start since it can not mandate codes of conduct or effectively help minimize harm
The company's new review board is designed to move slowly and keep things intact. — My late colleague, Neil Postman … Tweets: @elibietti , @elinor_carmi , @wired , @ptnoo , @k8he...