At the risk of falling prey to "WhatAboutism" it is hard for me to be concerned here when we give such free reign to credit agencies and other traditional corporate entities who can't be arsed to even keep their data secure. That has affected and inconvenienced me personally as opposed to the annoying buzz from the dumbasses who used to get their reality from a daily two hour hate from a minority of right-leaning pundits and who now thrive on fake news from Facebook and Twitter.
Their pre-existing intellectual incuriosity is the root problem IMO, not the current medium on which they gorge their ignorance. And by the time the same clowns in Congress who think it's hunky dory to tax grad student tuition waivers craft anything to regulate Facebook, there will be a new and scarier kid on the block extracting and analyzing the information at a whole new unforeseen level.
As others have said, large corporations are effectively the malevolent AIs Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking keep squawking about. Good luck with regulating that.
Their pre-existing intellectual incuriosity is the root problem IMO, not the current medium on which they gorge their ignorance. And by the time the same clowns in Congress who think it's hunky dory to tax grad student tuition waivers craft anything to regulate Facebook, there will be a new and scarier kid on the block extracting and analyzing the information at a whole new unforeseen level.
As others have said, large corporations are effectively the malevolent AIs Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking keep squawking about. Good luck with regulating that.