# kaal:claim:3782217-019

**Claim.** If transparent democratic institutions are not built to replace the corrupt ones, new opaque centralized institutions will take their place, as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter already do with secret algorithms that control what stories spread with no democratic oversight.

**Type.** predictive  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- current platform era

**Source quote.**

> If we don't build transparent democratic institutions to replace the corrupt insti- tutions, new opaque centralized institutions will. Already, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are creating secret algorithms that control what type of story can be spread through their platforms

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of History In Decentralization* (2021), News and education, page 7

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217

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**Topics.** governance-design, decentralization

**Keywords.** platform-governance, opaque-algorithms, democratic-oversight, decentralized-media

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