Social Media and Trust Building

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Face books CEO Mark zuckeberg said the company makes too many errors in forcing its policies and preventing misuse of our tools. Nick Clegg: Pushing people towards friends and family rather than to true news is actually going to increase the filterbu bubble problem. More people trust up dates from the police on facebook Than they trust up dates about the police in print, radio and t v news. The extraordinary impact for social media to very helpfully partner with our societies as a trust building exercise is only something we don't talk about because it's not as newsworthy as the story that it's undermining trust in institutions.

With so much data and power centralised in the hands of a few West Coast companies, the tech giants have become a serious threat to our basic freedoms and must be broken up. That’s the argument that was made at this major Intelligence Squared debate by the FT’s global business columnist Rana Foroohar and by businessman and former chairman of Channel 4 Luke Johnson. But others would argue that it’s all too easy to make the tech giants a scapegoat for the inevitable upheavals caused by the digital revolution. The real winners of this revolution are not the tech companies but us, the users. Who could now imagine living without the services of Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft? That’s the case that was made in our debate by former head of Facebook’s European politics and government division Elizabeth Linder and competition law expert Pinar Akman. Who's right and who's wrong?

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