Not to sound too bleak, but isn't pandora's jar already opened as of many years ago? We can hardly perceive the societal harms social media has done given we still live in the era where it is the main metaphor. You cannot reform it once it's out in other words.
> The team was made up of engineers as well as people with backgrounds in civil rights and ethics, and advised the company’s product teams on “potential harms across a broad spectrum of societal issues and dilemmas
I suppose the question is whether people are surprised that this team existed in the first place. It sounds like it adds lots of legal liability of knowing about certain problems and not doing anything about them in due time. I wonder what they ended up finding if they found anything at all not already known to the public.
> The team was made up of engineers as well as people with backgrounds in civil rights and ethics, and advised the company’s product teams on “potential harms across a broad spectrum of societal issues and dilemmas
I suppose the question is whether people are surprised that this team existed in the first place. It sounds like it adds lots of legal liability of knowing about certain problems and not doing anything about them in due time. I wonder what they ended up finding if they found anything at all not already known to the public.