It has not been a good week for Facebook.
1st Whistleblower Frances Haugen appears on 60 minutes and let's out some serious and detrimental allegations. Then few days later goes to Congress to share the same information!
2nd Facebook goes down for 7 hrs all over the world! 3.5 Billion users with no social media on Facebook, Whatspp and Instagram learn more
Here are two cool resources to look into and watch
1st Like War is a interesting book that talk how social media has been weaponized read more
2nd Here is a Podcast from Season 1 Quantumly Leaping Podcast with Hisham Qaddoumi and I
According to the Pew research center 62% of adults in the United States get their news from social media platforms. And, while most major media outlets have presence on social media, much more news outlets that are not legit or even regulated are their most of which spread lies, misinformation and conspiracy theories. The numbers of people who believe and share this news from those sources are staggering and rising every day. Currently social media platforms are protected under the US law as being a provider (platform) not as a publisher which means they can decide for themselves what content should stay on their own platforms. While the pressure is getting higher and higher for those platforms to moderate the content and many of them are trying hard to make that happen, we hear politicians threatening of suing them or even shutting them down when they moderate their content. How content moderation affects the spread of misinformation? How these companies will balance content moderation and still profit from content? And how politics plays a huge part in that? All of these questions are in the core of this episode’s topics.
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