kaal:claim:3782198-001

Social media platform owners do not know and cannot choose which content will matter; the answers are held in the behavior of the network of users, and the companies merely monitor network transactions and analyze them statistically with automated algorithms.

Source quote, verbatim

The network of users has the answers in their members' behavior. The social media companies simply monitor the networks' transactions and statistically analyze the information with automated algorithms.

From

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021), From Social Media to Decentralized Coordination, p. 4
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198 · source PDF

Cite as

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198

Holds when

applies to Web 2.0 platforms whose value derives from user generated content and behavior

Classification

mechanismsupport: argueddecentralizationinstitutional-design

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