🧵Nobel laureate journalist @MariaRessa explains succinctly the existential threat @Facebook poses to democracies around the world:
Facebook is the world's largest distributor of news. Yet how it distributes news is governed by algorithms that amplify anger & hate and divide us.
Facebook is the world's largest distributor of news. Yet how it distributes news is governed by algorithms that amplify anger & hate and divide us.
@mariaressa @Facebook .@MariaRessa: Research shows that lies laced with anger & hate spread faster and further than facts. By spreading lies in this way, @Facebook divides society & radicalizes users.
If you say a lie 1000 times, it becomes a fact. If we don't have facts, we can't have truth.
If you say a lie 1000 times, it becomes a fact. If we don't have facts, we can't have truth.
https://twitter.com/PaulaChertok/status/1447265977238913029
@mariaressa @Facebook .@MariaRessa: Research shows that lies laced with anger & hate spread faster and further than facts. By spreading lies in this way, @Facebook divides society & radicalizes users.
If you say a lie 1000 times, it becomes a fact. If we don't have facts, we can't have truth.
If you say a lie 1000 times, it becomes a fact. If we don't have facts, we can't have truth.
@mariaressa @Facebook 🔥@MariaRessa on @Facebook, #journalism & #democracy: Without facts or truth, you can't have trust. Without a shared reality, you can't have a democracy, or any kind of meaningful human interaction to solve the existential problems we face—from coronavirus to climate change.
@mariaressa @Facebook Journalists like Maria have been sounding the alarm about @Facebook for years. In 2015 Ukrainians & Russians—incl @Navalny—petitioned Zuckerberg about Kremlin trolls subverting Facebook to silence Putin's critics. They warned the problem would grow more dangerous if unaddressed⬇️
https://twitter.com/PaulaChertok/status/1063097453723869184
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