People began to feel that tech companies were not just neutral hosts; they bore some responsibility for what their algorithms circulated.
This sentiment reminds me of the learning materials that we read through in Module 4 regarding Facebook knowing that teen girls were suffering from what algorithms were suggesting them. We even read this week that when it comes to shifting algorithms to stop suggesting misinformation, social media companies "want to do the right thing, but don’t follow through because it hurts engagement on the platform" (Van der Linden, 2021).