{"id":5409,"date":"2022-04-18T08:38:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T06:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/18\/facebook-lacks-willpower-to-tackle-misinformation-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2022-04-18T08:38:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T06:38:45","slug":"facebook-lacks-willpower-to-tackle-misinformation-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/18\/facebook-lacks-willpower-to-tackle-misinformation-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook \u2018lacks willpower\u2019 to tackle misinformation in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As company pursues growth on continent, it stands accused of not putting enough money into moderating content<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has been accused of failing to invest sufficiently to combat misinformation as it pursues rapid growth in Africa, where the Covid pandemic has highlighted the outsize role played by social media in online discourse.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional media and governments have an increasingly limited ability to control information flows on the continent, as social media platforms including Facebook seek to expand rapidly, though largely without fanfare.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/18\/facebook-accused-of-lacking-willpower-to-tackle-misinformation-in-africa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/708462be795de7250aeb80f1967a4682211a3bce\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=95a279d577238a0093e19820c6800fda\" title=\"Facebook \u2018lacks willpower\u2019 to tackle misinformation in Africa\" \/>As company pursues growth on continent, it stands accused of not putting enough money into moderating content<br \/>\nFacebook has been accused of failing to invest sufficiently to combat misinformation as it pursues rapid growth in Africa, where the Covid pandemic has highlighted the outsize role played by social media in online discourse.<br \/>\nTraditional media and governments have an increasingly limited ability to control information flows on the continent, as social media platforms including Facebook seek to expand rapidly, though largely without fanfare. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As company pursues growth on continent, it stands accused of not putting enough money into moderating content Facebook has been accused of failing to invest sufficiently to combat misinformation as it pursues rapid growth in Africa, where the Covid pandemic has highlighted the outsize role played by social media in online discourse. Traditional media and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/18\/facebook-lacks-willpower-to-tackle-misinformation-in-africa\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook \u2018lacks willpower\u2019 to tackle misinformation in Africa<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}