Social media platform is loosening its checks over spread of organised disinformation campaigns
LAHORE – Some news items, if not many, go unnoticed as we deal with information bombardment. With most of these reported form far away, we feel that they don’t concern us in Pakistan. However, it isn’t the case as we live in global village. And a latest Reuters report about Elon Musk and his X – social media platform – is one of such stories.
Users could still report posts to X globally for a host of other complaints such as promoting violence or hate speech, the researcher added. Since billionaire Musk took Twitter, as it was then known, private in late 2022, the company, which cut most of its workforce, has been accused of allowing the proliferation of antisemitism, hate speech and misinformation, Reuters said.General elections aren’t far away in Pakistan – in January or February. We have already witnessed how social media has been used to manipulate minds in an organised manner by spreading disinformation especially when it comes to politics.
The Washington Post on Tuesday discussed this subject in detail, saying the BJP and the affiliated Hindu nationalist groups have been in the global vanguard of using social media for political aims — to advance their ideology and cement their grip over the world’s largest electoral democracy. Meanwhile, those managing social media platforms like Musk aren’t doing anything. “As hate speech and disinformation in India have grown in recent years, Silicon Valley giants have at times tried to police this incendiary content. But often they have struggled — or willingly turned a blind eye.”The most known examples of using social media for politics and voter manipulation are the US presidential elections and the Brexit referendum in 2016. In both cases, Russia managed to get what it wanted.
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