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Senators, experts coalesce around transparency regulations for social media companies
At a hearing on social media’s role in spreading extremism, panelists said that outside researchers should be given access to social media algorithms and other data
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Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee meeting to discuss committee matters on Capitol Hill on October 06, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
Hours ahead of Facebook’s announcement that it would be rebranding itself as “Meta” and shifting its company focus toward the so-called “metaverse,” the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee contemplated strategies for cracking down on extremism on social...