What users want social media platforms to share about content recommendations they give

What is it about?

This is a paper that discusses what social media platforms should include in transparency reports about their content recommendation algorithms, from users' perspectives. In this work explore what a recommendation algorithm transparency report may include and how it should present information to users. We share a set of guidelines for recommendation algorithm transparency reports as well as initial suggestions, in the form of prototypes, for more engaging and interactive forms of transparency.

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Why is it important?

Although social media platforms determine much of the content consumed by end-users, these users know little about how these algorithms work or what information they use to make their recommendations. We suggest a way for platforms to be more transparent in a way that would benefit end-users and inform them about how the social media platforms they use work.