Unlike Facebook, TikTok will reveal its algorithms in order to build trust in its policy enforcement
Social media shakedown

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Just this morning President Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV told the White House reporter pool that “we’re looking at
In response to all this chaos surrounding its app,
Regardless, in a basically unheard of action by a social media company, Mayer released a statement that claims
With our success comes responsibility and accountability. The entire industry has received scrutiny, and rightly so. Yet, we have received even more scrutiny due to the company’s Chinese origins. We accept this and embrace the challenge of giving peace of mind through greater transparency and accountability. We believe it is essential to show users, advertisers, creators, and regulators that we are responsible and committed members of the American community that follows US laws.
Even more, we believe our entire industry should be held to an exceptionally high standard. That’s why we believe all companies should disclose their algorithms, moderation policies, and data flows to regulators. We will not wait for regulation to come, but instead
TikTok has taken the first step by launching a Transparency and Accountability Center for moderation and data practices. Experts can observe our moderation policies in real-time, as well as examine the actual code that drives our algorithms. This puts us a step ahead of the industry, and we encourage others to follow suit.
The reasoning behind this is to allow experts to observe how policies are enforced, provide data flows to regulators and assuage some of the paranoia surrounding alleged data-harvesting by the Chinese government. Mayer also urged other social media companies to do the same, on the same day CEOs of Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon face Congress in antitrust hearings. Who knows what will come of that though, as Congress proved with its last conversation with Zuckerberg that it is too old and disconnected to know what the fuck it is dealing with.
With Facebook set to launch Reels (and apparently offering cold hard cash to lure influencers away from
Being able to cite
Antitrust hearings aside,
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