Greed Is to Blame for the Radicalization of Social Media
Greed Is to Blame for the Radicalization of Social Media
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
July 2, 20194m 18s
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Show Notes
Last week, Reddit quarantined "r/The_Donald," a pro-Trump message board, after the company determined that the subgroup had encouraged and threatened violence. Likewise, Twitter is signaling that it will flag—but not remove—posts by government officials who violate its rules. As with YouTube’s demonetization (rather than deletion) of anti-gay videos, these are welcome, but insufficient measures.
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