Politicians in closed Facebook or WhatsApp groups become more extreme in their views. It’s vital that they recognise thisBarely a week goes by without government ministers or MPs warning Facebook,Twitter, Google, and YouTube (a subsidiary of Google),Instagram or WhatsApp (both owned by Facebook) that they must accomplish more to prevent radical or dangerous ideas being spread. A “crackdown” is always just around the corner to protect users from harmful content.
Oddly, MPs never wonder whether they might be victims of the same effects of these tools that they, and too,use all the time. Why not, though? We support hearing that it’s a broad problem for people to be repeatedly exposed to radical ideas and outspoken extremists. It’s just that for MPs, or those tend to be within their own parties rather than on obscure YouTube channels.
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Source: theguardian.com