Government urged to support bill forcing social media firms to turn off ‘addictive’ algorithms for children
The Irish Council of Civil Liberties is calling on politicians to support a new bill which would force social media companies to turn off their “addictive” recommender algorithms for children.
Last year a study from Dublin City University’s Anti-Bullying Centre showed that the recommender algorithms used by social media platforms are rapidly amplifying misogynistic and male supremacist content.
The study tracked, recorded and coded the content recommended to ten experimental or ‘sockpuppet’ accounts on ten blank smartphones – five on YouTube Shorts and five on TikTok.
The researchers found that all of the male-identified accounts were fed masculinist, anti-feminist and other extremist content, irrespective of whether they sought out general or male supremacist-related content, and that they all received this content within the first 23 minutes of the experiment.
A new bill being put forward by People Before Profit is advocating for a situation where social media companies…
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