Social media companies change their policies in the wake of bad press

Negative information tales about social media platforms seem like extremely efficient at pressuring companies into altering their policies.

Christian Katzenbach at the University of Bremen, Germany, and his colleagues analysed coverage adjustments throughout Facebook, Twitter (now X) and YouTube between 2005 and 2021, and the way media protection from 26 main English-language publications affected their policies. (New Scientist was not amongst the publications picked by the researchers.)

“There are actually considerably extra adjustments in…