As recently as 2021, Nick Clegg, the president of global affairs at Facebook’s parent company Meta (he was previously the deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom), was still projecting a path toward more transparency. “You should be able to talk back to the algorithm and consciously adjust or ignore the predictions it makes,” he wrote in a post on Medium titled “You and the Algorithm: It Takes Two to Tango.” According to Clegg, it should be possible to “alter your personal algorithm in the cold light of day, through breathing spaces built into the design of the platform.”
