Facebook could turn off custom audiences for political lads and micro targeting. The company should also deleat all third party data that they collected on users, so everything t they've bought from other sources to do that targeting. It's one of the things that's extremely frustrating to me, because only a tech person could think like this. You know, journalists wouldn't try to tell you how to take things down based on a list of things,. This is the moral weight versus automation distinction, all right? T with automated criteria or the kind of discernment judgment, moral weight, the heaviness of that process. But the human mind has to wy the point.
[This episode originally aired on November 5, 2019] Maria Ressa is arguably one of the bravest journalists working in the Philippines today. As co-founder and CEO of the media site Rappler, she has withstood death threats, multiple arrests and a rising tide of populist fury that she first saw on Facebook, in the form of a strange and jarring personal attack. Through her story, she reveals, play by play, how an aspiring strongman can use social media to spread falsehoods, sow confusion, intimidate critics and subvert democratic institutions. Nonetheless, she argues Silicon Valley can reverse these trends, and fast. First, tech companies must "wake up," she says, to the threats they've unleashed throughout the Global South. Second, they must recognize that social media is intrinsically designed to favor the strongman over the lone dissident and the propagandist over the truth-teller, which is why it has become the central tool in every aspiring dictator's playbook.