As of Wednesday the New York Times published and investigation about the Russian interference on Facebook. The investigation stated that Facebook had not fully released all their known information about the Russian interference. The investigation also stated that Facebook hired a private company to dig up extra inside information on their competitors. Mark Zucerberg, the CEO of Facebook, responded to these claims in a rather defensive way. He responded to the claims saying that he ensures everyone that they ended their relationship with this company (CLICK HERE to read a CNN article about Facebook’s response to the investigation).
This recent incident raises the question on the governmental regulations with social media’s. As of now, social media is a very new thing to the government. There are regulations in place with social media and the internet in general, but there are still gray areas when it comes to speech and advertising on the internet. The US government honestly doesn’t exactly know the basics of social media, making it harder for representatives to fully understand how hard it is to regulate things like hate speech and harassment on the internet. These problems make it very hard for there to be perfect governmental regulations when it comes to advertising and social media.
Do you think that government representatives fully understands what goes on on social media? Do you think that Facebook wasn’t completely forthcoming with all of their information about Russian interference in our election or no? Do you think that the government will begin to make more new regulations when it comes to advertising and hate speech on the internet?
This recent incident raises the question on the governmental regulations with social media’s. As of now, social media is a very new thing to the government. There are regulations in place with social media and the internet in general, but there are still gray areas when it comes to speech and advertising on the internet. The US government honestly doesn’t exactly know the basics of social media, making it harder for representatives to fully understand how hard it is to regulate things like hate speech and harassment on the internet. These problems make it very hard for there to be perfect governmental regulations when it comes to advertising and social media.
Do you think that government representatives fully understands what goes on on social media? Do you think that Facebook wasn’t completely forthcoming with all of their information about Russian interference in our election or no? Do you think that the government will begin to make more new regulations when it comes to advertising and hate speech on the internet?
I haven't read the entire New York Times piece yet, but I did read a source this weekend suggesting that social media should be regulated by the government. Do people have any thoughts on this? The government regulates all kids of things -- should social media be one of them?
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