No One Wants This Future

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Senatorsy says we need a truth and reconciliation commission to sort of say, you know, back to the kind of correct the record thing. It's also correct humanity. We have to go back and say, we the technology companies, in the same way that we would notify you about a fake news story and say, wasn't real, we have to notified you about a false consciousness that we've created as well. And i can imagine the day where the close to e billion people collectively using facebook, youtube, twitter, et cetera, get not just a notification that says, i read this false news article, but i've been inside of and marinating in a false consciousness

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.”