Facebook in the Trap of Censorship
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.58894/.vi3.267Keywords:
censorship, social networks, propaganda, fake news, trollsAbstract
Facebook is trapped by its own acceleration. The largest social network, despite of denying it, has transformed into media platform which has no editor-in-chief. Therefore Facebook is hesitating between absurd censorship, on one hand, and its complete weakness regarding propaganda, fake news and troll’s campaigns, on the other. The social network gave birth to a new horror genre – “Live Death” – a reality show which the algorithms so far are incapable to control.
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