The article I analyzed is entitled “Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Defends Policy Allowing Misleading or False Campaign Ads,” by Zachary Evans on NationalReview.com. Zachary Evans is introduced as a news writer for National Review Online. He is also a veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces and a trained violist. The blog is about how Facebook CEO defended his company’s policy of allowing political campaigns to run advertisements containing misleading or false information on their platform.
The article familiarizes us that everything started when Facebook approve "an ad for President Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign accusing rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter of corruption, a charge which he has vigorously disputed." This is causing the response from Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass) released her own ad saying Zuckerberg supports Trump for reelection.
While Zuckerberg stated: “In general, in a democracy, I think that people should be able to hear for themselves what politicians are saying.” Warren, on the other hand, did not agree with that. She wrote on Medium: “We need to stop this generation of big tech companies from throwing around their political power to shape the rules in their favor.”
Evans's intended audience is everyone who is using Facebook or any social media ( and as we all know, almost a whole generation.) The impact of this policy will be advanced for any side that knows how to control the crowd. It will not just affect politicians in general but also ignorances since it will be running as a random ad on social media platforms. For that to say, it can change the destiny of our country.
Evans claims that social media companies including Facebook struggle with policies of free speech and censorship not just from the US but also from country to country. He also informs readers about both the cons and pros of this policy as much as Facebook's CEO defended it. The essay is quite credible since it was not biased but only informative, Evans remains neutral throughout most of the blog entry as well.
You can check his work from here : https://www.nationalreview.com/news/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-defends-policy-allowing-misleading-or-false-campaign-ads/
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Doan, the title “Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Defends Policy Allowing Misleading or False Campaign Ads," drew me in, as I am deeply intrigued by the company’s involvement in the 2016 election. For me, after things unfolded following the 2016 election it became more and more obvious the kind of stake Facebook held in its turnout, a fact I found extremely alarming. It was interesting to read Senator Warren’s rebuttal to Zuckerberg’s flimsy excuse that feigned if at all, very little responsibility for the role his company played in as you put it “the destiny of our country.” What Zuckerberg, for whatever ulterior motive or reasoning, fails to admit is the responsibility monster platforms such as Facebook should be required to adopt by this point in our age of technological advancement.
ReplyDeleteThe scandal was on such a scale, that even politicians had a hard time understanding it at the hearing you also mentioned which I viewed for myself. Zuckerberg is extremely skilled at evasion, and would often use misleading or vague wording to remain within the legal parameters of telling “the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” The fact that he sees no problem in disingenuous ad campaigns directly linked to current politicians, especially at such a perilous time for the country is an issue.
The fact that a social media platform as large as Facebook even has a hand in the political turnout of our country is as fascinating as it is terrifying. Technology seems to be the world’s newest life form, evolving daily, so that it’s hard to keep track of its scope and capability. We are at a junction where we as a nation, and even as a world of citizens need to decide when and where to set limitations. I think the manipulation of political beliefs is a good enough place to start.