Facebook, YouTube, Twitter execs grilled by senators over addictive nature of their apps

• Executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google-owned YouTube testified before Congress Tuesday about the ways their algorithms influence users and sometimes serve harmful misinformation. 
• The hearing before the the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on privacy and technology highlighted a key feature of the social media platforms that has amplified some of the most serious harms lawmakers have been seeking to address through a wide swath of bills. 
• While Section 230 reforms were brought up a handful of times at Tuesday’s hearing, the discussion also called attention to what could perhaps be a more narrow way of reining in some of the most pervasive harms of internet platforms by focusing on transparency around their algorithms.
• https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/27/facebook-youtube-twitter-execs-testify-in-senate-on-algorithms.html
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