We have gone from the information age into the disinformation age. How do you handle an epidemic in the age of fake news?Ĭan you get the coronavirus by eating Chinese food? It’s not just fake news it’s fake news with consequences. Recently in India, Internet lynch mobs have killed a dozen people, including these five… ISIS inspired followers online, and now white supremacists are doing the same.
Surveillance capitalism has come to shape our politics and culture in ways many people don’t perceive. Hey, I’m connected without a cell phone, okay? I’m on the Internet right now. You can stay disconnected as long as you want.
What was I supposed to do? I mean, every other kid in her class had one.Ĭass, no one’s forcing you to get one. Still don’t see why you let her have that thing. These cosmetic procedures are becoming so popular with teens, plastic surgeons have coined a new syndrome for it, “Snapchat dysmorphia,” with young patients wanting surgery so they can look more like they do in filtered selfies. There’s a question about whether social media is making your child depressed. Hey, Isla, can you get the table ready, please? …there’s no chance they’ll delete this thing… TikTok, if you talk to any tween out there… YouTube is being forced to concentrate on cleansing the site. White House officials say they have no reason to believe the Russian cyberattacks will stop.
We weren’t expecting any of this when we created Twitter over 12 years ago. It’s exacerbated by the fact that you can literally isolate yourself now in a bubble, thanks to our technology.įake news is becoming more advanced and threatening societies around the world. Tens of millions of Americans are hopelessly addicted to their electronic devices. …is going on that gets no coverage at all. The entire tech industry is under a new level of scrutiny.Īnd a new study sheds light on the link between mental health and social media use. Despite facing mounting criticism, the so-called Big Tech names are getting bigger. Yeah, it is hard to give a single, succinct… I’m trying to touch on many different problems. Is there a problem, and what is the problem? So, then, what’s the… what’s the problem? Nobody, I deeply believe, ever intended any of these consequences. And how they’re used is pretty different than how you expected. Yeah, these things, you release them, and they take on a life of their own. I mean, there were meaningful, systemic changes happening around the world because of these platforms that were positive! I think we were naive about the flip side of that coin. It’s easy today to lose sight of the fact that these tools actually have created some wonderful things in the world. And… And not just at Google but within the industry at large. I left Google in June 2017, uh, due to ethical concerns. When I was there, I always felt like, fundamentally, it was a force for good. This is… This is why I spent, like, eight months talking back and forth with lawyers. I was the coinventor of Google Drive, Gmail Chat, Facebook Pages, and the Facebook like button. While at Twitter, I spent a number of years running their developer platform, and then I became head of consumer product. Before that, um, I was the… the director of monetization at Facebook for five years. My last job there was the senior vice president of engineering. These interviews are presented alongside dramatizations of a teenager’s social media addiction and a primer on how a social media algorithm powered by artificial intelligence may work. Interviewees state that social media platforms and big tech companies have been instrumental in providing positive change for society they also note that such platforms have also caused problematic social, political, and cultural consequences. The film features interviews with many former employees, executives and other professionals from top tech companies and social media platforms, who provide their first-hand experiences of working in and around the tech industry. The film explores the rise of social media and the damage it has caused to society, focusing on its exploitation of its users for financial gain through surveillance capitalism and data mining, how its design is meant to nurture an addiction, its use in politics, its effect on mental health (including the mental health of adolescents and rising teen suicide rates), and its role in spreading conspiracy theories such as Pizzagate and aiding groups such as flat-earthers. The Social Dilemma is a 2020 American docudrama film directed by Jeff Orlowski and written by Orlowski, Davis Coombe, and Vickie Curtis.
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