Bad news: We lost control of our social media feeds. Good news: Courts are noticing

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the platforms’ algorithms prioritised outrageous, provocative content from anyone with internet access over more neutral, fact-based reporting. 

the wild popularity of TikTok’s “For You” algorithm, which selects bite-size videos to be fed to the passive viewer, social networks are increasingly having us watch whatever content their algorithms have chosen, often pushing to the sidelines the posts of accounts we had actually chosen to follow.

TikTok ...its algorithm, which disseminated dangerous videos promoting a “blackout challenge” showing people trying to strangle themselves until they passed out. TikTok delivered a video of the challenge to a 10-year-old girl named Nylah Anderson, who tried to emulate it and killed herself.

the company’s “personalisation algorithms” were designed to be addictive for children, as are other harmful features such as infinite scroll and frequent alerts.

the tech companies’ longstanding argument that the problem with social media is what we are doing to ourselves – not what they are doing to us.

Qn: Should the state bear the greatest responsibility for the ethical development of technology? (JPJC Prelim 2024)