He spoke at the Benedict Music Tent<\/a> on Wednesday afternoon about Russian election interference and what he called deepfake videos.<\/p>\nWith Harbath not on the Info Wars panel, there was little defense to Facebook\u2019s pivotal role in the spreading of \u201cfake news\u201d and hate speech across the world, fomenting events such as the recent genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar.<\/p>\n
Alex Stamos, a cyber security expert and adjunct professor at Stanford University, also cited WhatsApp, another very popular Facebook product, especially abroad, as being at the core of misinformation spreading in countries like India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Brazil.<\/p>\n
\u201cBolsonaro was not using ads, he was motivating people to push disinformation and take advantage of the privacy (WhatsApp) gives them,\u201d explained Stamos on how the free messaging application was used by supporters of the far-right congressman, Jair Bolsonaro, during Brazil\u2019s presidential election in 2018.<\/p>\n
Simply delete? Disclose it? Change the algorithm? Hurt the reach? Monitor? Fact-check it? How can the giant tech companies such as Facebook and Google oversight and contain manipulated and false content from spreading?<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we do need greater government regulation of these platforms,\u201d said Nathaniel Persily, who teaches First Amendment Law at Stanford University.<\/p>\n
\u201cActually, the platforms are coming around to this, they realized they can\u2019t decide on these issues, whether it\u2019s privacy, disinformation, hate speech or advertising,\u201d Persily said.<\/p>\n
For Stamos, not having access to what and how content is being moderated by these digital platforms makes it impossible for specialists to evaluate the issues and possible solutions.<\/p>\n
\u201cCreate archives of all moderated content, so academics can study what decisions need to be made,\u201d Stamos said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHate speech is as old as speech, fake news is as old as news,\u201d said Persily, who cited a known old line as a reminder that as technologies evolve, so does our same old challenges.<\/p>\n
The saying, \u201cA lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes,\u201d commonly credited to Mark Twain, is ironically not correct.<\/p>\n
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