Social Media Is Creating a Disinformation Environment

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ovas is a movement of people all over the world coming together based on the belief that we have more in common than that which divides us. The disinformation environment and larger social media environment was creating an eguo system that made it hard to achieve the goals that would make the world a better place. i believe this could be very deep trouble for humanity, and i am not exaggerating here. And so faddy, thank you so much for coming on the podcast.

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.”