Josh Taylor
The Guardian
Appearing at State of Social ’24
BREAKOUT SESSION
SESSION DETAILS
The Blank Phone and Social Media Account Experiment
Can we trust what we see on our socials? Can we trust social platforms to do the right thing? Josh set up a blank phone with new social media accounts to investigate. What content did the platforms serve up? What does it tell us about the platforms’ algorithms and intentions? And what do you need to know about how the content you (and your customers) see is being manipulated.
Josh Taylor is an award-winning journalist who has covered technology and politics in Australia for over a decade. His journalism has focused on holding those in power to account, transparency, security and freedom of information.
Increasingly in this age this work has focused on the digital platforms. He has appeared on ABC RN, ABC News, Ten News, The Project, among others. Prior to the Guardian he has reported for ZDNet, Crikey and BuzzFeed News.
SESSION DETAILS
The Blank Phone and Social Media Account Experiment
Can we trust what we see on our socials? Can we trust social platforms to do the right thing? Josh set up a blank phone with new social media accounts to investigate. What content did the platforms serve up? What does it tell us about the platforms’ algorithms and intentions? And what do you need to know about how the content you (and your customers) see is being manipulated.
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