Is There a Market Place of Free Speech?

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Even my own usage is a symmetrically influenced by the people who have shown themselves to be more reactive or have other psychological issues going on. A lot of facebook strategies for dealing with conspiracies, myths, hoaxes are about demoting that content and their feed u if you consume thousands of pieces of content a day, those demotions stop having an impact right? Cause you're still going to get downto the stuff that the might be harmful. I'm thinking of it almost like a genie coefficient, a measure of inequality, that there's ner half the amount of inequality want in society, whie there's a inequality in how much the more depressed, anxious, angry people are

We are now in social media's Big Tobacco moment. And that’s largely thanks to the courage of one woman: Frances Haugen.

Frances is a specialist in algorithmic product management. She worked at Google, Pinterest, and Yelp before joining Facebook — first as a Product Manager on Civic Misinformation, and then on the Counter-Espionage team. But what she saw at Facebook was that the company consistently and knowingly prioritized profits over public safety. So Frances made the courageous decision to blow the whistle — which resulted in the biggest disclosure in the history of Facebook, and in the history of social media.

In this special interview, co-hosts Tristan and Aza go behind the headlines with Frances herself. We go deeper into the problems she exposed, discuss potential solutions, and explore her motivations — along with why she fundamentally believes change is possible. We also announce an exciting campaign being launched by the Center for Humane Technology — to use this window of opportunity to make Facebook safer.