> The solution is straightforward: Companies that deploy personalized algorithmic amplification should be liable for the content these algorithms promote. I ju

> The solution is straightforward: Companies that deploy personalized algorithmic amplification should be liable for the content these algorithms promote. I just did a search for the word mob at Google and got 2.5B results. An algorithm has to decide which 50 are going to be displayed first. That may or may not be personalized. For example if I previously search for Al Capone, this search for mob could use that to filter the 2.5B results. If Google does that, does it become liable for all the results it displays? Is it really "promoting" something here, or just trying to satisfy my search with the most relevant results? It seems a very difficult distinction to make. I've never used Facebook and think it's a waste of time. But if they do decide to regulate it, I don't see much difference between the radicalism that gets promoted on Facebook and that on every news program on TV (which I no longer watch), or the radicalism promoted by politicians (which I no longer vote for).