{"id":3998,"date":"2018-01-23T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T12:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplecert.wpengine.com\/getbusy\/?p=3998\/"},"modified":"2018-01-31T10:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T10:30:55","slug":"facebook-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hepis.gr\/getbusy\/en\/2018\/01\/23\/facebook-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook admits social media can ‘corrode democracy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, Facebook touted itself as a tool for connecting the world and giving every person a voice.<\/p>\n

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Now the world’s largest social network is admitting there may be an unintended consequence to social networks: the undermining of democracy.<\/p>\n

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“At its best, [social media] allows us to express ourselves and take action,” Samidh Chakrabarti, Facebook’s product manager for civic engagement, wrote in a\u00a0blog post\u00a0Monday. “At its worst, it allows people to spread misinformation and corrode democracy.”<\/p>\n

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Chakrabarti added: “I wish I could guarantee that the positives are destined to outweigh the negatives, but I can’t.”<\/p>\n

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The startling comments are part of a\u00a0new series of blog posts\u00a0from\u00a0Facebook\u00a0(FB<\/span>)\u00a0executives and outside experts about the impact of social media on democracy. They come amid a wave of concerns from lawmakers, voters and tech industry employees about the damage done to societies by Facebook and other massive online platforms.<\/p>\n

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For years, Facebook touted itself as a tool for connecting the world and giving every person a voice.<\/p>\n

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Now the world’s largest social network is admitting there may be an unintended consequence to social networks: the undermining of democracy.<\/p>\n

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“At its best, [social media] allows us to express ourselves and take action,” Samidh Chakrabarti, Facebook’s product manager for civic engagement, wrote in a\u00a0blog post\u00a0Monday. “At its worst, it allows people to spread misinformation and corrode democracy.”<\/p>\n

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Chakrabarti added: “I wish I could guarantee that the positives are destined to outweigh the negatives, but I can’t.”<\/p>\n

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The startling comments are part of a\u00a0new series of blog posts\u00a0from\u00a0Facebook\u00a0(FB<\/span>)\u00a0executives and outside experts about the impact of social media on democracy. They come amid a wave of concerns from lawmakers, voters and tech industry employees about the damage done to societies by Facebook and other massive online platforms.<\/p>\n

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Facebook is facing pressure to prove it can do better. Executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google were called to testify before Congress for\u00a0several hearings on propaganda and misinformation\u00a0last year.<\/p>\n

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“I don’t think you get it,” Sen. Diane Feinstein, a Democrat representing Facebook’s home state of California,\u00a0told the tech executives\u00a0at one hearing in November. “What we’re talking about is a cataclysmic change. What we’re talking about is the beginning of cyber warfare… You have a huge problem on your hands.”<\/p>\n

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The unrelenting criticism has prompted what can only be described as a months-long apology tour from\u00a0current and former Facebook executives, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n

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In a remarkably candid post for Yom Kippur last year, Zuckerberg\u00a0apologized\u00a0for “the ways my work was used to divide people rather than bring us together.”<\/p>\n

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Zuckerberg said this month\u00a0his personal goal for 2018\u00a0is “fixing” Facebook’s many existential problems, including “defending against interference by nation states.”<\/p>\n

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To that end, Facebook recently announced\u00a0plans to prioritize articles\u00a0in its News Feed from news organizations that it deems more “trustworthy,” based on surveys of its users.<\/p>\n

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by\u00a0Seth Fiegerman<\/a><\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0money.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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