New Zealand is leading a bid to break open social media’s secret algorithms as part of The Christchurch Call response, with backing from some big tech outfits. But without input from the biggest ones, will it undercut the extremism on social media platforms? Mediawatch asks a social media pioneer who founded the forerunner of Twitter, but now wants to break the power of the big platforms.
Twitter has a novel idea how to win back developer trust: allow them to build on the platform itself, then promote their tools and services directly to users.