Collapse  

Hillary: Tech Companies Make Algo-Driven Conspiracy Rabbit Holes a Feature of Info Ecosystem

‘There must be a reckoning by the tech companies’
Current TimeВ 0:00
DurationВ -:-
Loaded: 0%
Stream TypeВ LIVE
Remaining TimeВ -:-
В 
1x

EXCERPT:

HILLARY: "And what we’ve got in the tech world on social media platforms is an algorithm-driven, conspiracy rabbit hole that people are enticed to go down and then addicted, because it is like watching constant car crashes. You cannot turn away. And as someone who has been accused of practically everything you could possibly imagine, I know how powerful this is, I mean, outrageous falsehoods which fuel a sense of alienation. And yet the algorithm-driven, advertising, profiting social media platforms find it I guess very difficult to break themselves of that addiction so, in fact, they don’t. And it’s going to be up to governments, and I would even hope some global rules, but let’s start with governments to try to rein in the disinformation on the social media platforms. It certainly plays to Russia’s interests, but also to other malign actors."

Like our work? Support the cause.
$
/