ABC News aired an single interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg this morning onGood Morning America . And rather of asking Zuckerberg bad questions , interviewer George Stephanopoulos lob softball after softball so that Zuck could fork over his prepared talk gunpoint .
“ Is the magnanimous message from you decently now , Facebook gets it , we ’re gon na change ? ” Stephanopoulos asked in a interrogative sentence that was n’t even a interrogative .
Zuck reply with Facebook ’s common talk point about how they ’re working on changing thing for the practiced . No surprises there .
Screenshot: (ABC News)
Why the hell should we care what Facebook ’s subject matter is , just ? That ’s suppose to come out naturally in the interview . A good interview consists of someone asking a person in mightiness a rugged interrogation , and then the person in power answering with their message . After that , the interviewer is say to call out any bullshit and demand a follow - up that hold their human foot to the fire . None of that happened during this morn ’s public relations blitz .
Zuckerberg said that Facebook want to , “ exaggerate the good thing that people do and to mitigate and remove as much of the negative as potential . ”
mystify it ? More good thing , few bad thing . heavily - reach stuff and nonsense .
When asked about government activity regulation of societal medium , something that Facebook has now advocated for in anop - ed for the Washington Post , Zuck had more robotic talking point to get out there .
“ Well , I ’ve spent most of the last few years trying to address these major social exit that we find ourselves at the center of , so everything from police harmful cognitive content , to preventing election hinderance , to making sure that we have hard data point controls in place , ” Zuckerberg said . “ And I ’m proud of the progress that we ’ve made . There ’s a muckle more to do . But we ’ve made a lot of progress over the last couple of years . ”
ask how surprised he was by blowback Facebook has received over the last twain of class , Mark Zuckerberg tells@GStephanopoulos , " More surprised than I should have been . “https://t.co / LNasAPhlDSpic.twitter.com / EAWOSQLP4U
— ABC News ( @ABC)April 4 , 2019
Zuck reason that Facebook has done all it can by cracking down on foreign political advertizing but assert that the regime needs to mistreat in and define everything because , as he puts it , “ one of the things that ’s indecipherable is , in reality , what is the definition of a political ad , correct ? And that ’s a really fundamental doubt for this . ”
Stephanopoulos also ask Zuckerberg about yesterday ’s revelations that Facebook user data for540 million accountswas discover out in the open on Amazon cloud server by saying , “ Are we gon na keep seeing surprise like this ? ” and failing to ask how that entropy beat there in the first position .
“ I just saw that , ” Zuckerberg say . “ So we ’re still count into this . In general , we turn with developers to check that that they ’re respect people ’s information and using it in only path that they want . ”
What character Facebook has in protect that data ? Questions like that were never ask .
Stephanopoulos also asked about whether societal media “ has made acts of extreme violence more prevalent . ” This should be an important interrogative in the wake of the Christchurch , New Zealand massacre where a terrorist kill 50 hoi polloi in two mosques and livestreamed the attack on Facebook for 17 minute . But Zuck really is n’t sold on the idea that his political program encourages extremism .
“ It ’s severe to say , ” Zuckerberg enunciate . “ I remember that that ’s extend to be something that ’s studied for a long time . I certainly have n’t see data that would indicate that it has . ”
“ And I think that the hope is that by giving everyone a voice , you ’re create a broader multifariousness of views that the great unwashed can have out there and that even if sometimes that come out some ugly views , I believe that the Democratic custom that we have is that you want to get those issues on the tabular array , so that way , you may deal with them . ”
Rather than ask Zuckerberg about the concealment invasion that have resulted in unsound press for Facebook , Stephanopoulos decided to lob another softball over the home and asked , “ How surprised were you by the hits Facebook claim ? ” Zuck respond that he was surprised because he ’s such an “ lofty ” person .
The consultation ended with Zuckerberg getting asked about screen sentence for his daughters , giving Zuck the opportunity to explicate how swell it is that he ’s able to communicate with his kids when he ’s travel . He even swivel into a bizarre tangent about how social media is actually making us healthier .
“ So right now , there ’s a lot of enquiry that shows that when multitude are using the internet and societal networks to really interact and link up with other the great unwashed , then that ’s a positive matter , veracious ? ” Zuckerberg said . “ And it is associate with all of the positive face of well - being that you ’d anticipate , more happiness over time , feeling more affiliated , less lonely , even , potentially , good health , over clip . ”
Mark Zuckerberg tells@GStephanopoulos , “ prepare the rules around political advert is not a companionship ’s job . ”https://t.co / A5xuUW0FH1pic.twitter.com/58nfs8LAZV
— Good Morning America ( @GMA)April 4 , 2019
One area that did n’t get mentioned : Facebook ’s complicity in genocide in Myanmar . As Gizmodo report yesterday , United Nations investigators are frustrated with Facebook’srefusal to do more to battle the problem . You ’d believe that Stephanopoulos might ask one doubtfulness about that whole genocide thing , at least .
Maybe we should n’t be so hard on Stephanopoulos since his regular beat is political sympathies , but that may excuse why Facebook ’s Porto Rico team decided this was a secure audience for Zuckerberg . But it does n’t take a tech expert to ask basic interrogative about the way in which Facebook has made society bad . And there ’s nothing more political right now than the rise of tech .
Facebook , along with its other platforms like WhatsApp and Instagram , has been appoint withhousing discrimination , has asked novel user for theirpasswords on other weapons platform , and help spreadracist violence around the world . And that ’s just in the past two weeks !
societal medium has given a phonation to the most utmost element of our garbage world and that ’s no stroke . The outrage and hate are the product . Zuckerberg may not personally wish that since he ’s an “ idealist ” but he ’s built a platform that further the worst in humans .
Anger creates “ participation ” and engagement is but more sentence spent on a chopine like Facebook to potentially see advert . And those ads are what fuels the largest tech company in the world .
Twitter gets a lot of shit for spreading extremism , but at least Jack Dorsey has done adversarial audience where he ’s askedreal questions about the harm Twitter has make . Zuckerberg , on the other helping hand , produce to talk to Good Morning America about how he ’s trying really heavily and they ’re last to do well . One of these 24-hour interval .
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