{"id":2189,"date":"2021-07-17T08:42:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T06:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/17\/social-warming-by-charles-arthur-review-a-coolly-prosecutorial-look-at-social-media\/"},"modified":"2021-07-17T08:42:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T06:42:45","slug":"social-warming-by-charles-arthur-review-a-coolly-prosecutorial-look-at-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/17\/social-warming-by-charles-arthur-review-a-coolly-prosecutorial-look-at-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Warming by Charles Arthur review \u2013 a coolly prosecutorial look at social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social media giants contribute to global conflicts and allow misinformation. How have they gained so much control, and what is that doing to our lives?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s good to remember that every time Mark Zuckerberg claims that he founded Facebook in order to connect people or build communities, he is somehow forgetting that he first created the site in order to enable himself and his fellow dorm-dwellers to rate Harvard\u2019s young women on their looks. But then, Zuckerberg has never been the sharpest tool in the box. He once said that Facebook wouldn\u2019t interfere with Holocaust-denial on its service, because it was hard to impugn people\u2019s motives for denying the Holocaust, before a couple of years later announcing that his \u201cthinking\u201d on the matter had \u201cevolved\u201d and Holocaust denial was now frowned upon. Well, evolution does work slowly.<\/p>\n

But as Charles Arthur\u2019s coolly prosecutorial book shows, social-media algorithms don\u2019t just allow people with nefarious interests to get together: they perform as active matchmakers. \u201cFacebook was hothousing extremism by putting extremists in touch with each other,\u201d concluded Facebook\u2019s own internal investigations in 2016. Not only that, Facebook was \u201cauto-generating terrorist content\u201d: its \u201cmachine learning\u201d systems created a \u201cLocal Business\u201d page for \u201cal-Qaida in the Arabian peninsula\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nSocial media giants contribute to global conflicts and allow misinformation. How have they gained so much control, and what is that doing to our lives?
\nIt\u2019s good to remember that every time Mark Zuckerberg claims that he founded Facebook in order to connect people or build communities, he is somehow forgetting that he first created the site in order to enable himself and his fellow dorm-dwellers to rate Harvard\u2019s young women on their looks. But then, Zuckerberg has never been the sharpest tool in the box. He once said that Facebook wouldn\u2019t interfere with Holocaust-denial on its service, because it was hard to impugn people\u2019s motives for denying the Holocaust, before a couple of years later announcing that his \u201cthinking\u201d on the matter had \u201cevolved\u201d and Holocaust denial was now frowned upon. Well, evolution does work slowly.
\nBut as Charles Arthur\u2019s coolly prosecutorial book shows, social-media algorithms don\u2019t just allow people with nefarious interests to get together: they perform as active matchmakers. \u201cFacebook was hothousing extremism by putting extremists in touch with each other,\u201d concluded Facebook\u2019s own internal investigations in 2016. Not only that, Facebook was \u201cauto-generating terrorist content\u201d: its \u201cmachine learning\u201d systems created a \u201cLocal Business\u201d page for \u201cal-Qaida in the Arabian peninsula\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Social media giants contribute to global conflicts and allow misinformation. How have they gained so much control, and what is that doing to our lives? It\u2019s good to remember that every time Mark Zuckerberg claims that he founded Facebook in order to connect people or build communities, he is somehow forgetting that he first created …<\/p>\n

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