A top Facebook executive on Sunday said the company could "broadly" allow regulators to access the social media platform's algorithms.
"Broadly, the answer is yes," said Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president for global affairs and communications, during an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" with Dana Bash
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Facebook is under pressure over whether its algorithm amplifies dangerous content after a whistleblower claimed it knowingly pushes such content to users, an allegation the company rejects.
"We need greater transparency," Clegg told Bash. "They should be held to account, if necessary by regulation, so that people can match what our systems say they're supposed to do and what actually happens."
Chegg also noted the inherent limitations of intervening on social media, saying, "you can't design regulation that intervenes in real time and in the way that human beings interact every millisecond of the day."
In a sign of the new pressure on Facebook, Sen. Amy Klobuchar
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"I believe the time for conversation is done. The time for action is now," the senator said.
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"That's why I have a bill to, at least with misinformation from vaccines, to say, 'you are responsible if you're amplifying this and putting it out there'," Klobuchar added.
Klobuchar's criticism follows former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen's testimony before a Senate panel last week. H
Moving forward, Chegg said Facebook has paused work on an Instagram Kid's project in addition to working on new controls for parents of teenagers, encouraging younger users to take breaks from social media and nudging teen's to look at different posts if the platform recognizes they routinely return to potentially harmful content.
The media executive noted that the internal reports showed that most young users had a positive experience on the platform.
"For the overwhelming majority of teenagers, actually using Instagram is a positive experience even when they're suffering from sleeplessness, anxiety, depression and so on," Chegg said. "It either makes no difference what actually makes them feel better."
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