US criticizes French inquiry into social media platform X
Submitted 1 week ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
While this is “nice”, I guess, I also can’t fathom how naive this generally seems.
X is a proprietary black box and X/Musk can change the algorithm literally at will, what they show which persons and when and when not. There is NO time ever where users have have any control over it, and to perform a statistical analysis on a blackbox is also kind of pointless in this case because the blackbox can change randomly, at any point in time, possibly right after the analysis has concluded, or right before.
For example if this study comes to the conclusion that there was no manipulation during the time of the study, that’s meaningless because it could have been before and it could happen afterwards. If it comes to the conclusion that there was manipulation at a certain time, then X can always claim that they’ve already “fixed” the issue and then it’s again a new black box and no one knows when the next manipulation is being activated.
The ONLY solution to this is to ONLY use open source platforms where not a single company or host is able to do what they want with the complete service. Or in other words, the only solution is to avoid X and other proprietary social media platforms like the plague that they are.
I really don’t get why people are so naive when it comes to proprietary online services. It’s almost as if they like being screwed over.
lefaucet@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Headline read to me like Mordor criticizes Shire for query into Sauron’s social media platform
rustyfish@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Please excuse my French, but the US administration should do what it’s best at and suck France’s collective, throbbing cock.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That Musk illustration originated here on Lemmy! I wish I could find the original post, but it was an art student who submitted it for something, and posted here for feedback.