I think there needs to be a distinction between information seeking and passive interaction. If I go onto twitter and go to DPRK News (https://twitter.com/DPRK_News , quite a good parody account) it's clear that DPRK News is the publisher of all the information and twitter is the hoster. I'm seeking the information in the DPRK News feed.
When I'm just flipping through twitter's infinite scroll then I'm not really seeking anything in particular than twitter is acting like a traditional editor- choosing the content I see. It's a different activity.
I think platforms that choose content on behalf of the user need to have a different set of obligations than those that serve content based on user requests, an those obligations go up with scale. It's one thing to have a fake story or illegal content be seen by 100 friends, its another to feed it to 100,000 people.
When I'm just flipping through twitter's infinite scroll then I'm not really seeking anything in particular than twitter is acting like a traditional editor- choosing the content I see. It's a different activity.
I think platforms that choose content on behalf of the user need to have a different set of obligations than those that serve content based on user requests, an those obligations go up with scale. It's one thing to have a fake story or illegal content be seen by 100 friends, its another to feed it to 100,000 people.