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Facebook and the Future
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Facebook and the Future

Christopher Cox
Aspen Institute, 2018
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From inception, Facebook has championed conversation and community. But the use of Facebook advertising tools to flood Americans with disinformation and hate speech in 2015–2016 was a wake-up call for the company. In this Aspen Ideas Festival exchange, Facebook’s chief product officer Christopher Cox sits down with Wired editor in chief Nicholas Thompson to discuss how Facebook will prevent future abuses. getAbstract suggests this talk to Facebook users and anyone concerned about social media hacking.

Take-Aways

  • After the gaming of Facebook to subvert the 2016 US presidential election, the social media platform is shifting its protocols and priorities.
  • In a trade-off for better privacy, Facebook has sacrificed some ease of use, and in a trade-off for safer online communities, the company has increased limits on free speech.
  • Facebook’s new process for fighting disinformation and hoaxes catches stories and images just before they go viral and sends the content to human fact-checkers. Rather than remove disinformation, Facebook keeps it posted alongside disproving evidence.

About the Speaker

Christopher Cox is chief product officer of Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.

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