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Digital Accountability Symposium: Weapons of Mass Mediaโ€“Facebook News and a Call to Accountability

17 December 2019
Hate speech | Technology
For anyone concernedย about the weaponization of social media to further atrocities, the dangers of Facebookโ€™s new featureย Facebook Newsย are unprecedented, writes Shannon Raj Singh.

While social media has been weaponised before, Facebook Newsย carries the potential to be a weapon with particularly acute capabilities and range. Not only is Facebook amplifying dangerous content posted by others, but its โ€œcuration teamโ€ is making fundamental decisions about what news has enough โ€œintegrityโ€ to warrant being hand-selected and highlighted for hundreds of millions of people. When these articles are given the extraordinary amplification inherent to Facebook, and are specifically targeted to users receptive to its message, they could play a pivotal role in fuelling atrocities.

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