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You said January 6th was a perfect example. January 6th is a perfect example of that, right? So I don't even know where to begin. They exploit the weaknesses of our biology to actually shift behavior, to shift the way you think if the way you think shifts, then the way you behave shifts, right. These platforms are the connective tissue of society. But that's also where regulation must come in, because that is exactly what they're doing. So they actually don't have standards and ethics or the mission to protect the public's sphere. Now Facebook, these companies didn't set out to be news organizations. None, you know, and I get it on both ends, right? Because what Facebook has enabled is an environment where my government has been able to file 10 arrest warrants against me in less than two years.

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We have tried to strip away as much hate speech as we possibly can, but it comes in a torrent and we can't get everything.' Do you have any sympathy for this argument? We've essentially hired a kind of supreme court to adjudicate some of these difficult questions and hired and brought in some extremely prestigious minds from the world of journalism and academia and all the rest. I guess the next question we have to ask is what is to be done? To repeat the famous question.įacebook, not to do their work for them, but Facebook would charge to the microphone and say, 'Look, we have spent millions upon millions of dollars to do better. It's because news organizations lost our gate keeping powers to technology and technology took the revenues that we used to have, and they took the powers, but they abdicated responsibility.' These revelations have made clearer, they've been, it's clear to many but clearer what the problem is with Facebook and social media in the way you've been describing it. You said this, 'I think that the rollback of democracy globally and the tearing apart of shared reality has been because of tech. I want to read to you something that you've said and I want to expand on it. At first, Ressa believed Facebook would be critical to the success of her enterprise in journalism in general, but she soon became one of Facebook's most vocal and informed critics. Ressa runs the digital news organization Rappler, which is based in the Philippines, and she's been the target of hate campaigns by supporters of President Rodrigo Duterte over and over again. It's one of those days of cascading meetings. The journalist Maria Ressa shared a Nobel Peace Prize in October for her work to protect freedom of expression. Facebook's indifference to how it accelerates the circulation of toxic and false information, its participation in corroding civil and democratic society are now just impossible to ignore. In the release of thousands of company documents, known as the Facebook Papers, contains a staggering number of missteps and misdeeds. Weeks ago we learned that the company knows that Instagram, for example, which it owns, causes serious mental distress for many teenagers.

The trickle of bad news about Facebook, or as its just been rebranded Meta, has turned into a torrent. Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour, I'm David Remnick. This is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.

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