Judd Legum, The Guardian; Facebook's pledge to eliminate misinformation is itself fake news
"The production values are high and the message is compelling. In an 11-minute mini-documentary, Facebook acknowledges its mistakes and pledges to “fight against misinformation”.
“With connecting people, particularly at our scale, comes an immense amount of responsibility,” an unidentified Facebook executive in the film solemnly tells a nodding audience of new company employees.
An outdoor ad campaign by Facebook strikes a similar note, plastering
slogans like “Fake news is not your friend” at bus stops around the
country.
But the reality of what’s happening on the Facebook platform belies its gauzy public relations campaign."
Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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