At a certain point the big social media companies are going to have to publish their algorithms and/or let you choose your own re: friends updates, friends of friends, things your friends or friends of friends liked, etc. Make your algorithm too opaque and you run the risk of outrage engagement showing up as "the platform pushed this" whatwver that happens to be.

I would go further and make them liable for what they show. Sure it's user created content. But the feed is entirely curated by them. They decide what to show and what not and they should be liable as such.

The US government is not a fan of other sovereign nations (even Western-aligned ones) from gaining "algorithmic sovereignty", as was seen when Australia tried to do so recently and received a stern threat from the US State Department.

X did publish their algorithms.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310291

They set the standard in transparency.

I don't think anything will force them to do this. Can you elaborate on why you think they'll be forced to do this?

I suspect this has been part of 4chan’s lasting appeal: a dead simple algorithm that can be independently verified via timestamps.

Algorithms are something we should definitely regulate, as a generalization of social media and Ai decisions over human lives.

I'd like to see something like ATProtocol feeds forced upon these companies, anyone can create any kind of feed, it works in all clients.