
Facebook Goes '2Africa' — with Julie Owono
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Is Facebook Using the African Continent as a Proxy to Target Voters?
We're running, in general, this grand psychological experiment on what happens when you plug three billion people into an automated attention information sorting system. And no one's ever run thatx ment before, and it's kind of an unsafe experiment,. I feeleve facebook only has something like 20 major languages, or something like that, that they do fact checking for. The russians have really understood that this resentment happens to mirror the resentment felt here inthe sor in europe, against raceism, institutional raceism. It's important to know what groups are being politically weaponized against each other because that's what's going to be used later on.
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