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Populations online, like showing unemployment and housing ads to white people, but not to black people. in our country. should congress pass that bill? >> those issues are a bias. during my time at pinterest, like i mentioned before, its difficult to understand how these algorithms react. saying that reels doesnt give african-americans the same distribution at white people and until we have transparency and our ability to confirm ourselves that facebooks marketing messages are true, we will not ...

They cant protect us from the harms they know exist in their own system. so i dont think its just a question of should people have the option of choosing to not be manipulated by their algorithms. i think if we had appropriate oversight or to make facebook responsible for the konconseques of their intentional decisions, i think they would get rid of it because it is causing teenagers to be more exposed to more anorexia content and in ethiopia, its literally fanning ethnic violence. it encourage ...

Generated content is something companies have less control over. they have 100% control over their algorithms and facebook should not get a free pass on choices it makes to prioritize growth and virality over public safety. theyre paying for their profits with our safety. so i strongly encourage reform of 230. i also believe there needs to be a dedicated oversight body bought right now, the only people in the world who are trained to analyze these experiments, to understand whats happening insid...

Completely withstand a first amendment challenge. so that may be a constructive way that congress can make a difference here without vi violating the first amendment. >> making facebook reasonable for their decisions. the algorithms that push the content to you and make it more viral. this is really, really, really interesting today. thank you all very much. we have to turn now to some breaking news though. there is a security incident outside the u.s. supreme court that was taking place just no...

>> yes. >> thank you very much. thank you, chairman. >> senator cantwell. >> i think i want to continue on that vein. first of all, the privacy act that i introduced along with several colleagues actually does have ftc oversight of algorithm transparency. i hope youd take a look at that and tell us what other areas we should add. clearly thats the issue at hand here. thank you again for your wi willingness to come forward. the documentation that you say exists, is the level of transparency about...

Because it was already their business model. bewe need to update that law for the 21st century. tell me if this should pass. one, create an online eraser button so that young users can tell websites to delete the data theyve collected about them. two, give young teens under the age of 16 and their parents control of their information. and three, ban targeted ads to children. >> i support all those actions. >> thank you. and finally, ive also introduced the algorithmic justice and online transpar...

Why wont you get rid of this? the best theory weve come up with, and this is our interpretation, is peoples bonuses are tied to msi. people stay or leave the company based on what they get paid and if you hurt msi, a bunch of people werent going to get their bonuses. >> so youre saying this practice still continues today. like were still in this environment. im personally -- >> yeah. >> im very frustrated by this because we presented information to facebook from one of my own constituents in 201...

Being delivered to teenagers on instagram because the algorithms learn correlations, where your party ad may still go to kids interested in partying because facebook is almost certainly has a ranking model in the background that it says this person wants more party related content. >> interesting. thank you. thats very helpful. what that suggests to me is that while they are saying theyre not targeting teens with those ads, the algorithm might do some of that work for them, which might explain w...