President-elect Trump’s FCC chair pick Brendan Carr has a monumental task ahead of him, Dr. Jordan Peterson warned Wednesday, and exposing Big Tech’s algorithmic grip on free speech is a good place to start.
“At minimum, he should ensure that we know how the algorithms operate on social media networks and how things are promoted and how things are hidden,” Peterson told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade in an interview that aired Wednesday on “Fox & Friends.”
“Because the real danger, one of the real dangers that confronts us is that our discourse is going to be mediated by intelligence systems whose mechanisms are completely hidden from us, and that actually interferes with our perception, not just our conceptions, because what we see is pre-screened in ways that are invisible to us and increasingly automated, and that’s not that’s not a good harbinger for the future, let’s say. So transparency with regards to how things are promoted and demoted, that would be real helpful.”
The renowned Canadian …