Frank McCourt, founder of Project Liberty, a non-profit building a new civic architecture for a safer, healthier internet, weighs in on recent studies about the relationship between social media and politics.
Billionaire builder and philanthropist Frank McCourt, a Meta critic who is working on alternative social media models, said that the studies do not address the most fundamental civic issues created by concentrating power over information flow in the hands of for-profit businesses.
“You get what you optimize for,” said McCourt, “and social media platforms are not optimizing for a healthy society.”
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