Under questioning from the US senate we saw social media giants’ new nervousness surrounding how content should be regulated in the dying age of Trump.
Big tech wants to be rescued from its content problem: hate speech and fake news, driven by bots and trolls gaming the algorithms and polluting the social media eco-system.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg repeated his plea to the US Senate in its hearings last night: save us from ourselves. Tell us what to do. Regulate us!
It makes a change from the usual corporate
fulmination against red tape, but it shows the difference between the social
media giants and the traditional media they’ve supplanted: these modern content
channels don’t care what content they end up channelling.
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