Jim Steyer of Common Sense Media is the editor of the new book 'Which Side of History? How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives,' and he joins Morning Joe to discuss. Aired on 11/18/2020.
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New Book Looks At How Big Tech Is Impacting Our Lives | Morning Joe | MSNBC
Social media needs to stop anonymous signups. Do what Nextdoor does and have a postcard sent to your home address with a verification code so we can ensure real citizens are in fact citizens and not some foreign bot.
wtf is wrong with you.
Why do you want your entire life logged by some random company?
I deleted my Facebook because I didn’t like feeling unappreciated by other people getting 50 or more likes and I’d get 0 and sometimes 2. Also because Mark Zuckerberg is awful and I don’t want him making money off of me
No more Republican LIES
You mean like the lie that every Trump-supporter is a racist?
I quit facebook 2 years ago……DON’T MISS IT AT ALL
For me it has been 5 years. The quietest and best and most sane of my life. However, Google now prevents me from accessing my music without paying twice for my own music, I can’t use certain apps – Air BNB – without providing Google with all my private information. They hack into my phone and I have no choice. It’s starting to get scary.
@Kat Pima Same here. It appeals to and rewards our narcissistic tendencies. Witness our times.
Never used Twitter either. I feel no need to brag about myself, and I really don’t believe the universe wants desperately to know where I am or if I’m taking a poop at that exact instant.
I did too. Years ago one the 1st data breach.
Twitter allowing Trump to pretty much incite riots.
He is directly responsible for the Governor of Michigan almost getting dead.
This goes against their own rules supposedly.
A President of these United States should not be allowed to govern via a tweet.
It is so irresponsible and a definite security risk.
Look at all the trouble it has caused our Democracy.
It seems to have Republicans paralyzed for fear of a tweet.
The President has nuclear codes and violates employees and citizens rights.
Trying to share and shame them in public
Firing people in public in a tweet.
It is unacceptable.
I’ve never used tw
IT people everywhere wondering why this is news worthy.
Zuckerberg doesnt even make a
good Android, if a doctor examined him…that would come
out very quickly. Congrats to DARPA for a good try though.
This is a good step but what about Fox Un News and Friends. So much disinformation and lies? Free speech is important and yet their commentators speak lies, conspiracies and hate too. Is it time for Fox News to disband this section of their media representation too? I believe all large media outlets need to be placed under the same glass wall when they have so many viewers. Misinformation spread is the crime. And they are all responsible for it.
Silencing free speech is the crime. Unfair partisan determinations under the veil of acting as a platform that saves them from lawsuits, as opposed to the loud and proud publishers they’ve become, should be the issue we fact check.
Fox lost a lot of folks this month…
I don’t understand why anyone would put their entire life up on Facebook. It’s the ultimate, self inflicted, invasion of privacy.
Remember when people used to complain about government surveillance? Facebook and Twitter are malicious, mass surveillance, tools that are making billions off of your data for very little return. They’re laughing at us.
I met my girlfriend on Facebook. I was 1 of 3300 friends. It’s complicated.
I am here in real life, yet she has a secret Facebook page for 300 people.
I only keep Facebook for pinball games I am interested in buying.
When the American troops come back from Afghanistan they will be able to use them to take Trump out of the White House on January 20th
I bet you want to round up Trump supporters and put them in camps too, right?
THE NEWS BEEN SHOWING BLACK PPL IN A NEGATIVE LIGHT FOREVER YET NOTHING IS DONE ABOUT THEM
Fox news should be accountable as well!!! It’s freedom of speech, not freedom to lie!!
Here’s a workable solution: Congress passes a particularly onerous law about fact checking, so much so that it can’t be implemented at a large scale. Then we eliminate the problem because Facebook, Twitter, Google, none of them can sustain the social media business anymore. They effectively go out of business. Problem solved, right?
Probably the only social media companies left would be in China, or anywhere outside of US jurisdiction. Phew !
@kevdaag or we could be the base of free thought.. which people like… right. Freedom will fuel the future on the internet. My prediction, let’s catch up to our history.
@kevdaag just like China building masses of coal plants across the world… even if we don’t do it here it still affects GLOBAL warming right. Biden’s path just ruins free society.. And discounts natural fluctuations that brought us ice ages and otherwise of the past for economic and political abuse..
@kevdaag or how about only making it apply to companies of a certain size. Encourages smaller vertical oriented groups instead of one big psyops pool.
So should MSNBC.
I quit Facebook 2016.
Don’t get “ZUCKED”.
#DeleteFacebook
I don’t need facial recognition book or tweety.
The objective of social media is to present ads by presenting people with feeds that align with the readers convictions to keep them on line. The result is more clicks and more ads. The problem is people only get one side of the issue, the side that most echoes their own ideology. This intensifies their commitment to that single sided stream of knowledge. Social media is destroying objectiveness. The end of it will leave everyone less informed and ignorant.
Some of this falls on those readers that don’t look for the conformation of what they read. They are too eager to fully accept what is in front of them. While I’ll support the freedom of enterprise there needs to be a balance in the information delivered or the divide between left and right America will become too large to bridge.
Yes, this is exactly the problem. The impact was proven by the 2020 election divide.
I just heard that the White House Thanksgiving turkey is going to Pardon Donald Trump kind of hard to tell which one is the turkey
Read and heed … if it’s free YOU are the product. YOU made the tech giants extremely powerful AND comprised your own privacy.
Just to be clear, it’s not about what’s written or said; we should never want any limitations put on free speech. What this is really all about is the algorithm! You ever go on FB or Twitter and find stuff in your feed that makes your blood boil? That’s because you interacted with it last time round and the more you interact with content, the more similar content you will receive. However, just like a sugar hit you need more each time in order to make you respond, so these platforms deliberately seek out and find ever more extreme posts; this is why people are moving away from the centre and to the extremes. It’s not free speech when a neo-nazis’s post is pushed by the algorithm to hundreds of millions of people because the platform wants to ‘get a reaction’ from users so they will stay on the platform longer and consume more ads(ads = revenue). That’s not free speech, it’s manipulation. Also, once the algorithm is fixed from a for profit model, to a more user friendly and helpful model, then the solution to hate speech is the democratization of social media. Let the end viewers rank and report ‘bad’ videos, and use an algorithm to monitor this user feedback(note that the feedback needs to be more precise than a thumbs up or down). So each users feedback is equal to one vote, or point, only when large percentages of viewers complain does the algorithm respond by promoting the video less; so hate speech isn’t removed, it’s just down voted so that it is very hard to find. This system relies entirely on the ‘conscience’ of the masses, hence the term the democratization of social media, it relies on the majority of people disliking hate speech and promoting better content.
If they are Trumpers, they LOOK for a reason for him to be RIGHT. Anything that matches their views. That’s why I seriously recommend reading and obtaining news through various companies and platforms. NOT JUST Fox News!
We need a study on how this is terrible for children. Giving a social media/cell phone to a child is child abuse.
Maybe if Cruz et al stopped lying they wouldn’t be targeted. The republicants are the ones spreading disinformation and hate speech not the dems!