Tech Talk: Facebook to ‘nudge’ teens away from harmful content – Gulf Digital News

Tech Talk: Facebook to ‘nudge’ teens away from harmful content – Gulf Digital News

WASHINGTON: A Facebook executive said yesterday that the company would introduce new measures on its apps to prompt teens away from harmful content, as US legislators scrutinise how Facebook and subsidiaries like Instagram affect young people’s mental health.

Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, also expressed openness to the idea of letting regulators have access to Facebook algorithms that are used to amplify content. But Clegg said he could not answer the question whether its algorithms amplified the voices of people who had attacked the US Capitol on January 6.

The algorithms “should be held to account, if necessary, by regulation so that people can match what our systems say they’re supposed to do from what actually happens,” Clegg said.