During an impromptu and newsmaking interview streamed on Twitter Spaces, Elon Musk challenged a BBC reporter to come examples of hate speech on the social media platform.
Category: free speech
The debate over online content access promises get even more intense as the 2020 election gets closer and closer. Setting aside fringe actors, it often seems to come down to legitimate free speech vs. Orwellian censorship.
In an unusually fair story, The New York Times reported on this development.
“The post went up quietly on Facebook’s internal message board last week. Titled ‘We Have a Problem With Political Diversity,’ it quickly took off inside the social network. ‘We are a political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views,’ Brian Amerige, a senior Facebook engineer, wrote in the post, which was obtained by The New York Times. ‘We claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack — often in mobs — anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology.’ Since the post went up, more than 100 Facebook employees have joined Mr. Amerige to form an online group called FB’ers for Political Diversity, according to two people who viewed the group’s page and who were not authorized to speak publicly. The aim of the initiative, according to Mr. Amerige’s memo, is to create a space for ideological diversity within the company.”
The post went up quietly on Facebook’s internal message board. Titled “We Have a Problem With Political Diversity,” it quickly took off inside the social network. https://t.co/aHEZ09cRSh