Facebook has slammed a proposal from the consumer watchdog to create a new regulator in Australia to oversee algorithms, which govern news rankings and advertising on it and Google, as unnecessary and unworkable.
Facebook's head of content distribution and algorithm policy, Andy O'Connell, disputed that the social media giant was not transparent about how its algorithms worked and said it consulted widely and publicised any major changes.
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