From Carole Cadwalladr as she uses TED to try to hold Sil...

From Carole Cadwalladr as she uses TED to try to hold Silicon Valley to account���to get the social media companies to thin of themselves as information utilities rather than misinformation utilities:



Carole Cadwalladr: My TED Talk: How I Took on the Tech Titans in Their Lair: "Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter... saying that Nazism was 'hard to define'.... They needed to go 'deep'.... Anderson gave credit to Dorsey for actually showing up. And it���s true he did. He showed guts for doing what Zuckerberg and Sandberg would not. But... what came across... was the complete absence of emotion���any emotion���in Dorsey���s face.... Dorsey appeared���and I can���t think of any other way of saying this���insentient.... Dorsey can see the iceberg but doesn���t seem to feel our terror. Or understand it. In an interview last summer, US journalist Kara Swisher, repeatedly asked Zuckerberg how he felt about Facebook���s role in inciting genocide in Myanmar���as established by the UN���and he couldn���t or wouldn���t answer...




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