How Human Connection Can Heal the World, if Done Well

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Foddy: There's a disconnect between the kind of work environment and what the executives and employees at these companies believe that they're doing. Foddy: The people i studied with, the majority of people that work on these companies, are not bad people. And our hope was that to human connection, you know, the thing we want to build, is that human connection can actually heal the world, if done well.

The sound of bullies on social media can be deafening, but what about their victims? “They're just sitting there being pummeled and pummeled and pummeled,” says Fadi Quran. As the campaign director of Avaaz, a platform for 62 million activists worldwide, Fadi and his team go to great lengths to figure out exactly how social media is being weaponized against vulnerable communities, including those who have no voice online at all. “They can't report it. They’re not online.” Fadi says. “They can't even have a conversation about it.” But by bringing these voices of survivors to Silicon Valley, Fadi says, tech companies can not just hear the lethal consequences of algorithmic abuse, they can start hacking away at a system that Fadi argues was “designed for bullies.”