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“ In a way, this will be a test for American social media companies if things really escalate.”
“ There's a financial incentive, and there's a political incentive. And some of the actors that we see are in it for one reason or another and some are in it for both.”
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“ The Facebook Papers showed that the platform can function almost like a turn-key system for extremist recruiters and the metaverse would make it even easier to perpetrate that violence.”
“ If this occurred in any of the countries where the United States provides aid, it would immediately be called out as a threat to democracy. U.S. diplomats would be writing furious cables, and decision makers would be threatening to cut off the flow of assistance.”
“ Facebook [should] adopt a kind of “circuit breaker,” where the share button is automatically but temporarily removed on content that starts getting deep reshares very quickly, until the content can be evaluated. Something like this, could have stopped the disinformation video “Plandemic” from getting millions of views before it was ultimately removed from the site.”
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October 28, 2021
On Thursday, October 28, 2021, Karen Kornbluh testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs on "Social Media...