Google, X and Facebook are current tobacco companies
When Tobacco companies knew people were poisoning, the titists of today’s social media poisoning our policy, Peddling Lies and Furious to gain
From Facebook to X Tiktok, the giants of today’s social networks are located as a free talk bastion. Mark Zuckerberg Meta General Manager says the truth to check “Too much censorship“While dialing Tikto a statement without freedom argument forced sale. Who, after all, can he discuss freedom without freedom to talk?
The answer, it is breathtaking, paying attention to anyone. As we begin to understand cataclyism effect Viral misinformation is an undeniable reality that overflows social networks Benefit of media empires deil division and fear. Time From politics Health, propagated by falsity During social media influence vast harm. 2018. From the year Genocide of Myanmar Rohingya People, on Facebook, X, Facebook and Telegram were turned on when they turned on last year A violent rebellion against immigrants People gave people 1.8 million views in the UK to a video of Tiktok encouraged bleach to take enemies To heal the infestation of the alleged parasite, evidence is clear that social media myths cause great damage to society.
While Europe has resisted Social Media Giants ImpactUS Efforts have almost completely failed, with YouTube, X and other platforms Reduce misinformation teams and allow Conspiracy theories for rebellion. Industries are now known to deny the damage to tremendous products, follows a well-known and deep playbook: the stripes of the tobacco industry continues.
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Bank Four 10 people Once smokers poisoned the lungs, the wide number of people now receives his news Social Media’s Prism Editorialpoisoning their perceptions.
Around a fifth of Americans now get their new From the social impacts of the media. A last European explore Older and young teenagers It is found that 42 percent got their news, especially from social networking platforms like Tiktok and Instagram. In the last two decades, the giants of social networks have Traditional relocated media as News Source For many, without subjects without topics Journalism integrity or Editorial responsibility. Instead they win Without obligation. And here is corporate richness and mountain range Tobacco industry are particularly clarified.
Much earlier than big smoking damage Very popularTobacco companies knew Their product was detrimental and addictive. Instead of taking corrective actions, they abdomen decade weaken Any regulations, while continuing cigarettes Millions kill. Not to alleviate riders, but his product was deadly to eliminate the overwhelming evidence, the product was promoted in weak spectators. Bragged by a memo infaming of a tobacco company in the 1960s “Doubt is our product“,” Industry is a way to move away from the damage of profitability.
In the age of information, social network companies are not different. From the internal metrathics, the giants of technology have long known that independent research continuously validate: that is, it is a virikoki, such as it causes strong feelings outrage and disgustregardless of the veracity below. They also know that such content is very responsible and is the most profitable. Falling against false and harmful content, they put profits above the gradation and harmful effects of itself while mining massive costs.
We know that at least after the 2016 presidential election after the American division, where Guilt of social media for Signature of victory of fiction Now he greeted what it looks like Mock Presentation. Technical giants like Facebook They trumped their partnerships with Facts verification organizations.
This now rings rings rings in 2021 on Facebook Frances Haugen The company, soon, named Meta, the company, has been the tools to expand dangerous misinformation effectively from politics to medicine. However, his leaders chose to improve these tools, in fact He won more money He would bring inflammatory fictions without much commitment. (He asked about this critique, a meta spokesperson mentioned forecast Made by Zuckerberg in January and company policies Desertionation and “Uneasiness of behavior. “)
Social Media Titans has fundamentally embraced the same hypocrisy Tobacco industry When they were concerned about the worry of reducing damage, push his product more aggressively. With Trump recycling, our technology giants do not want to take care of more. They are talking instead of free conference celebrations. This was when Zuckerberg adopted when he said that meta Stop the event verification Its forecast for his January. Elon Musk has labeled himself,Free absolutist conference. “But between Zuckerberg’s meta To silence the legal arsenal Facebook Executive Executive is Sarah Wynn-Williams Insider damn account and Musk’s attempts to Criticism of silence Xn too Like opposition protests In Türkiye, hypocrisy is impossible.
Platitudes about free expression are intentional ignorance of human psychology. First of all, we usually reason to observe the psychologist Daniel Kahneman An economy novel In 2002. For example, riots from England and Northern Ireland swatches were last year riots Social Media Accounts Immigrants claim illness crimes, amplified by the right extreme accounts. That these accounts were not fictitious to arouse the inconvenience Fear and anger.
We have known more than a decade Induces anger or disgust It is a strong social media predictor. This is the cost of the veracity, the executive directors only get a fraction of commitment. Moreover, the truth is the phenomenon of Illesodium, where the repeat exposures of falsehood to accept this, we also know that it is false in the intellectual level. For damaging disinformation, he does not need to be convinced, it must certainly be enough to know that they do not know how to access the apathy. This has an extraordinary power of antivacine propaganda, the main driver graft semincancywhere Fear and doubtThe propaganda is caused by parents to delay the vaccination or even waiver. Resistance to allow vaccination This year he has killed at least one child in the Texas measles measles.
Social Media Company Discover this. Commitment is the most Business modeland doubt The damage they affect It is their product. Tobacco executives, and their purchased scientists once The uncertainty claimed above the links between cigarettes and lung cancer. It also has Zuckerberg attest Congress, “The body of scientific work has not been shown Causal link Social networks and between Young people Being a worse mental health, “Even while the exams are found Self-damage, Disorder of eating and miatoginistic material Expanded on these platforms. Equivocation Echoes This Protections Tobacco companies did not have causal evidence of smoking, as quickly as the opposite Amasa.
Because of all this, the social media deserves Opproidium and ultimately regulate. Although protestations, there are no free talk, freedom only from the consequences for them. Until you start thinking about thinking that strict and social confidence on social media gains, Tech billionaires will continue to exploit human misery and continue to align our fragments.
This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views indicated by the author or authors are not necessarily American scientific.
