[wlug] Social Media Companies Can’t Be Trusted To Police Themselves -- Who Knew?

From a hearing at the US House of Representatives <https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/29/facebook_research_congress/> which received submissions from academics trying to study Facebook’s effect on its users in the face of active hostility from the company:

“Tobacco companies don't get to decide who does research on smoking and the idea that social media companies get to decide who studies them is perverse.” -- Laura Edelson