Opinion | Joan Donovan and Jennifer Nilsen: Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies need to be treated like Big Tobacco. - NBCNewsTHINK
Joan Donovan, research director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center,Thursday marks a turning point in internet history. For the first time,has declared the barrage of misinformation spreading on social media a public health hazard. In an advisory, Surgeon General Dr.
For social media companies, misinformation is like secondhand smoke, spreading falsehoods to millions before the truth can be known. In the same way his predecessor decades ago took on the tobacco companies, he is taking on the technology industry by defining how misinformation hurts Americans. In our view, thisadvising technology companies to redesign their algorithms so that search and recommendation systems don’t surface reckless misinformation, and to make it easier for people to identify and report misinformation.
As researchers of the internet and the dangerous effects of disinformation campaigns, we urge policymakers to embrace the surgeon general’s advisory and treat social media as a consumer product.
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