Contemporary allegation
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Media & Information · Big Tech & platform manipulation
Competing accounts of whether platform ranking and engagement systems amount to covert political steering, versus product optimization with political side effects that fall short of intentional mass control.
Open the caseInvolved
organization
Cambridge Analytica
document
Digital Services Act
concept
EdgeRank
concept
Engagement ranking systems
organization
European Commission
document
Facebook emotional contagion study
document
Facebook Files
concept
filter bubble
person
Frances Haugen
organization
Google / YouTube
person
Mark Zuckerberg
organization
Meta Platforms
organization
Nature
concept
recommendation algorithms
organization
TikTok
government agency
U.S. Department of Justice
government agency
U.S. Federal Trade Commission
organization
Wall Street Journal
concept
YouTube recommendation system