Mark Zuckerberg’s Post On Facebook’s Impact On America Forgets U.S. Diversity Makes It Ripe Target For Hate Content

After each of these years observing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and adjacent gathering him aft we accidentally stepped implicit each different astatine the TechCrunch The Crunchies Awards After-Party astatine San Francisco City Hall successful 2009, the past happening I would deliberation Zuck would hide is that America’s the has the largest and astir divers acceptable of societal media users successful the full world.

Rather than support that successful caput during his evident acceptable of pique aft Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen blew the doors disconnected the vault shielding america from however Facebook truly works, Mark made a large error. He wrote:

if societal media were arsenic liable for polarizing nine arsenic immoderate radical claim, past wherefore are we seeing polarization summation successful the US portion it stays level oregon declines successful galore countries with conscionable arsenic dense usage of societal media astir the world?

The information is that among each nations, lone China and India have larger populations of societal media users. And America is acold much divers than India from the position that the U.S. is the World’s melting cookware – radical from much nations telephone America location than is the lawsuit for India, by percentage. That leads to an unthinkable taste diverseness that has been exploited via a benignant of usage of Facebook that should beryllium outlawed.

Facebook has been the epicenter of the instauration of contented specifically designed to sow division. How Russia utilized Facebook to disagreement America is well-documented. But the erstwhile Soviet Union is not the lone state utilizing Facebook to power the electorates of nations, The Philippines has arsenic well. And portion accounts implicit determination absorption connected its ain population, wherefore should we presume that America wasn’t a people arsenic well? Moreover, it was reported that the Philippines Government spent portion of its fund connected the creation of fake Facebook groups that person been taken down (they say).

America is the people by a fig of nations and organizations which person nary occupation moving to disagreement us, and person utilized Facebook to bash so. That Mark Zuckerberg would effort to gaslight that information is horrible, to accidental the least. It means that, aft each of the Congressional grounds and hand-wringing, Mark is inactive consenting to look the different mode portion his level is utilized to ferment radical division. It besides means that Muslim Advocates was wholly close successful asserting that Facebook does not instrumentality the contented seriously.

The question, for me, is who’s paying Facebook to bash this and why? It would look that it’s just to constituent an accusatory digit astatine Russia. Now, each we person to bash is find grounds of a quid-pro-quo successful immoderate form. Mark’s not allowing this for nothing. And adjacent if the extremity effect is much gross for Facebook via antagonistic engagement, what’s helium getting from Russia successful the signifier of further outgo oregon favors to assistance support the enactment going? That’s the null hypothesis. The adjacent measurement is to trial to find if it sticks.

But arsenic I deliberation astir this, I americium reminded of the Lockbox Access Privacy Scandal of 2010, wherever it was revealed that the CIA had greater levels of entree to Facebook information than you and I. The question of wherefore was not answered then, and it is inactive not addressed, today.

Stay tuned.