Facebook's Unchecked Power Risks Civil Rights: Allowed Itself To Become White Supremacist, Hate Tool
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'Facebook's Unchecked Power Endangers Civil Rights.' If Zuckerberg truly believes in giving everyone a voice, the company must integrate a power, race, & social analysis into its policies & their enforcement. By Gaurav Laroia, Carmen Scurato, Common Dreams, 7/29/20.
Whether by accident or design, Facebook's massive scale and reach have made the online platform part of the world's social fabric. But behind its network of 2.6-billion regular users lurk algorithms specifically created to amplify divisive content and drive people apart. Add to that mix a lax enforcement of Facebook's own Community Standards and you have a toxic recipe for spreading hate speech, disinformation, and propaganda.
Facebook has allowed itself to become a tool for white supremacists and other hate groups to recruit others to join violent and hateful causes, bleeding odious and dangerous ideologies from the internet into the real world.
As the House Committee on the Judiciary prepares to grill the CEOs of Alphabet (the parent company of Google), Amazon, Apple, and Facebook on antitrust issues today, members of Congress need to examine how Facebook's influence, reach, and power have undermined our democracy.
By prioritizing profits and growth over every other social value, executives at Facebook have treated real-world harms and violence as nothing more than PR problems that must be managed...
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