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by T3OU-736 1691 days ago
"""That could, for instance, be data showing that women in certain parts of the U.K. are more liable to read Covid misinformation, or that certain teens are “hyper-exposed” to self-harming content. Ofcom would then tell the social media firm to tweak its algorithms to change those statistics, or be punished."""

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" came to mind. I also strongly suspect that the internal research would get outsourced or otherwise far more difficult to discover.