Why Facebook Refuses to Fix the Misinformation Crisis It Created with Karen Hao

Factually! with Adam Conover

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4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Facebook pushes dangerous misinformation to billions of people every day. So why can’t it… stop? This week, MIT Technology Review’s Senior AI Reporter, Karen Hao, joins Adam to detail her blockbuster report on how Facebook’s internal AI teams were instructed to stop fighting misinformation because doing so interfered with Facebook’s growth. Read her reporting at: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/11/1020600/facebook-responsible-ai-misinformation/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a Headgun Podcast.
0:04.0	I don't know the truth.
0:07.0	I don't know the way.
0:10.0	I don't know what to think.
0:13.0	I don't know what to say.
0:16.0	You've got to buy.
0:19.0	You've got to keep.
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:28.0	Hello, welcome to Factually, I'm Adam Connover.
0:31.0	And let's talk a little bit more about misinformation today.
0:34.0	You know that it's out there.
0:35.0	You know that it's bad for you.
0:37.0	You know that you're getting it anyway.
0:39.0	Social media spits a constant stream of vaccination misinformation.
0:43.0	Lies about a democracy, hate speech,
0:45.0	and garden variety people yelling at each other
0:48.0	into our eye holes and ear holes every single day.
0:51.0	Misinformation are the chunks in the toxic soup we sip
0:55.0	every time we open our apps.
0:57.0	Now, we've talked about this on the show before.
0:59.0	A couple of weeks back, we had Mike Caulfield,
1:01.0	incredible, wonderful media literacy researcher and educator
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