Testimonials & Social Media

Social media witnesses * Facebook, Google and Twitter have testified this week at the House Intelligence Committee and the Senate's Judiciary Committee and they seem to be fighting for the title of 'most irresponsible social media platform'. You can get a good in-depth coverage from Recode, but coverage may get you to peel off your hair. One of the highlights of the barbecue is admission: 1) Russia actually paid some Facebook advertisements at the ruble; 2) Facebook has searched its logs for announcing that it was leaked ; 3) It does not include "violation of YouTube community guidelines", so it does not exclude "Russia Today" (actually the Kremlin's advertising department). Furthermore, the CEOs of these platforms did not show up in the testimony to make the United States even hate them.

New Media is an algorithm company like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and you can click on advertisements to organize access to political and social information. According to a recent Facebook testimony, the number of postal users in Russia has reached 126 million. Yes, but that is normal, we are not a media company! As early as June 2016, Facebook had to deal with news reports reporting actual keywords leading to targeted Facebook advertisements. Many people I know are experiencing this situation. Since the picture of June 2016 celebrates Instagram, it shows that CEO's laptop camera and microphone jack are affixed, Mark Zuckerberg himself is also the target of criticism of monitoring. Is this really the world we want to live in?