Fighting fake news and the algorithm

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The scandal led to internal documents being released to the press showing, for example, that the company did nothing when it learned that Instagram could help develop mental disorders among teenagers. Facebook had even changed its name to Meta as a way to resolve the crisis, according to analysis by specialists .

These two episodes show that social media platforms have a hard time moderating the content their users post. They are businesses and they want to make money. This is not a problem. But what about their social responsibilities?

Responsibility of the media
Another controversy arose in 2021 during the US elections. Twitter determined that Trump's comments on the social media platform incited violence in the US capital. His account was subsequently permanently banned from the platform.

I don't want to make a statement about whether it was japan phone number list a good decision to remove Donald Trump's profile from Twitter or not. The only thing I am clear about is: what we say on social media has a real impact on reality. For that reason, we should start thinking about accountability.

Something we should be more concerned about is polarization, which has been a big problem in recent years. Why? Because polarization really impacts democracy, and it also brings hate speech .

Facebook noticed this and saw it as a business opportunity, for example.

But it doesn't help us to think logically, but rather in a very biased way. As I said at the beginning, manipulation has always existed, but with social media it seems that people have fewer filters to know what is true or reliable.

With social media, we are on both sides: we create content at the same time as we consume it. A phenomenon that did not happen with television, cinema or radio, where someone spoke for the masses. Now, the masses speak and consume, and share (which makes some good things go viral, like a donation drive, but also bad things, like fake news and hate speech).