Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry

Re:Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed t... by vovavili on Monday January 19, 2026 @05:08PM (#46685185)

>Right now I think it's a problem that social media companies can do research without answering to the same regulatory bodies that regular academics / researchers would. For example, they don't have to answer to independent ethics committees / reviews.

These bodies are exactly what makes academia so insufferable. They're just too filled with overly neurotic people who investigate research way past the point of diminishing returns because they are incentivized to do so. If I were to go down the research route, there is no way I wouldn't want to do in a private sector.

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Re:Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed t... by Grimblewald on Monday January 19, 2026 @10:00PM (#46687407)

While I agree they're a pain, you need only look at the long list of experiments that happened prior that were used as a justification for why we need this regulation, and why it was implemented with very little resistance.

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Re:Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed t... by vovavili on Thursday January 22, 2026 @01:01PM (#46722861)

Just like as it tends to happen with most bits of regulation, the problem is that you give it a meter and it walks a mile.

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