As Social Media Giants Plan For Disinformation, Critics Say It's Not Enough
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🗓️ 1 October 2020
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Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg explains what lessons the company learned from 2016 and what they're doing differently this time. She spoke to NPR's Audie Cornish about that, and about the burden of work falling on women during the pandemic. Hear more of their conversation here.
Critics say the social media giants are too large to realistically enforce their own policies.
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| 0:00.0 | Disinformation is already widespread this election season. |
| 0:04.0 | In our last episode, we looked at how much of it is coming from President Trump and his allies. |
| 0:08.6 | The radical left are laying the groundwork to steal this election from my father, |
| 0:13.2 | President Donald Trump. |
| 0:14.8 | Like this Trump campaign video featuring Donald Trump Jr. calling for an army of poll watchers. |
| 0:20.3 | We need every able-bodied man, woman, to join army for Trump's election security operation at... |
| 0:28.4 | So what we're did with this ad is it links very clearly to the bipartisan policy center. |
| 0:34.9 | Facebook Chief Operating Officer Cheryl Sandberg told me this week that if you see this video on Facebook, |
| 0:40.8 | President Trump is going to wait. Don't let them steal it. |
| 0:44.3 | You'll see just below it a message from Facebook itself that says, |
| 0:48.6 | voting by mail has a long history of trustworthiness in the US and the same is predicted this election year. |
| 0:55.5 | Then there's a link to more information from a bipartisan nonprofit organization. |
| 0:59.8 | I think what people are worried about in this ad is that he says, |
| 1:03.3 | army of supporters. We believe the language army of supporters is not really calling for an army, |
| 1:10.0 | but is calling on people who are normal campaign volunteers. |
| 1:13.5 | But there have been other instances where people very senior have called on real violence. |
| 1:18.3 | Those come down immediately. |
| 1:20.4 | And that is a judgment call. |
| 1:22.8 | One critics say Facebook in a lot of cases is making too late in the game or not at all. |
| 1:28.3 | Consider this, with barely a month until November 3rd and more votes being cast every day, |
| 1:33.6 | what are the most powerful social media companies doing about disinformation? |
| 1:39.2 | Cheryl Sandberg answers our questions. |
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