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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Deep Rot Within Facebook/Meta: What can be Done? -Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

Deep Rot Within Facebook/Meta: What can be Done? -Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

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published Published on Nov 12, 2021   modified Modified on Nov 13, 2021

-Newsclick.in

Can legal and regulatory action be taken against Facebook for actively abetting the spread of communal hatred? While a precedent exists in the US, carrying out the same in India will prove a challenge.

So, what’s new about whistleblower Frances Haugen’s revelations about how the top brass of the now-renamed Facebook turned a blind eye to the proliferation of incendiary, hateful and false information on its social media platform, how the digital monopoly chose profits over safety, how it actively aided Right-wing demagogues, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and contributed to the rapid spread of Islamophobia in India? Answer: not very much, really.

Yet Haugen’s decision to leak troves of internal information, including e-mail exchanges and minutes of meetings, is significant for several reasons. Her decision could possibly prompt stricter regulatory oversight in the United States over the activities of Facebook, now known as Meta, one of the world’s biggest privately-owned corporate conglomerates (that includes WhatsApp and Instagram) headed by 37-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, one of the richest men on the planet.

If that indeed happens, it would be a welcome development, even if there is little that is now known which was not known earlier about how the Facebook/Meta platform has been misused for disseminating a “near-constant barrage of polarising nationalistic content, misinformation, and violence and gore,” to use the words of a researcher for the company. 

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Newsclick.in, 12 November, 2021, https://www.newsclick.in/Deep-Rot-Within-Facebook-Meta-What-can-be-Done?fbclid=IwAR203HV_0ES2nH_2D3ThR_PynruVuZVghdNGB7-PEpKBHj-vARd7n0nMC6o


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