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Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 »

everdrive wrote: post #34

Social media itself is a grand experiment. What happens if you start connecting people from disparate communities, and then prioritize for outrage and emotionalism? In years prior, you would be heavily shaped by the people you lived near. TV and internet broke this down somewhat, but social media really blew the doors off. Now it's the case that almost no one seems to be able to explain all the woes we're facing toda…

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

Re: Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry

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Post by vovavili »

Grimblewald wrote: post #99
vovavili wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Right now I think it's a problem that social media companies can do research without answering to the same regulatory bodies that regular academics / researchers would. For example, they don't have to answer to independent ethics committees / reviews. These bodies are exactly what makes academia so insufferable. They're just too filled with overly neurotic people who investigate research way past the point of dimini…

While I agree they're a pain, you need only look at the long list of experiments that happened prior that were used as a justification for why we need this regulation, and why it was implemented with very little resistance.

Just like as it tends to happen with most bits of regulation, the problem is that you give it a meter and it walks a mile.
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