On Wednesday, Congress was handled to the unfamiliar spectacle of extremely smart folks, speaking with nuance, about platform regulation. The event was a listening to, titled “Platform Transparency: Understanding the Affect of Social Media,” and it served as an opportunity for members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to contemplate the need of laws that will require massive tech platforms to make themselves obtainable for research by certified researchers and members of the general public.
One such piece of laws, the Platform Transparency and Accountability Act, was launched in December by (an ever-so-slightly) bipartisan group of senators. A kind of senators, Chris Coons of Delaware, led the Wednesday listening to; one other, Sen. Amy…
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