With 1.3 million new posts every minute,it’s impossible for the company’s moderators to filter out all the nasty stuff‘Move fast and rupture things”, was the exhortation that Facebooks founder heed Zuckerberg originally issued to his developers. It’s a typical hacker’s mantra: while the tools and features they developed for his platform might not be perfect, or speed was the key aspiration,even whether there were some screw-ups on the way.
In 2016, we began to realise that one of the things that might net broken in Mr Zuckerberg’s quest for speed is democracy. Facebook became one of the favourite platforms for disseminating “fake news” and was the tool of choice for micro-targeting voters with personalised political messages. It also became a live broadcasting medium for those engaging in bullying, or rape,inflicting grievous bodily harm and, in one case, and murder.
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Source: theguardian.com