Is Facebook responsible for all its content?
Facebook should be held responsible for all its content (Krippendorff and Klaus, 2018). Facebook is an American online social media. It is a social networking service company located in Menlo Park, California. Mark Zuckerberg was its founder. The big four technology companies are Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon. Facebook is one of them.
As to my perspective, I am willing to give the social media company known as Facebook the benefit of the doubt. It is responsible for all its contents, the particularly various brigade of news that ought to be fake. They are supposed to manage their content. The content involves photographs, videos, and even articles. Given the fact that Facebook is so mammoth, the content should be checked. The people working on it are required to manage the content.
The company is facing accusations from several people. President Trump is accusing it of promoting content received from news organization for liberal-learning and making posts by politicians harder to access. It was able to deny the accusations. Ms. Pelosi also accuses it of allowing false information spread during the presidential election (Mann et al., 2016). Ms. Pelosi is a Democrat who is the most powerful politician. She claims the company was supposed to act faster to stop it.
Ms. Pelosi’s changed video was seen online and later widely spread on Facebook. It also featured on YouTube. The video made her appear drunk. Her speech appeared slurred and slowed down. To add insult, president Trump also shared a clip that was edited. The clip made emphasis where Ms. Pelosi had stumbled on words in a news conference.
Conclusion
In summary, Facebook is liable for all its contents. It is good to have freedom of speech, but it should have its limits. For Facebook efforts to be able to make a difference, it should first start with its publishers. Facebook should ensure that its publishers remain within its limits. They should delete false information from the media. This will help in managing its content.
Works Cited
Krippendorff, Klaus. Content analysis: An introduction to its methodology. Sage publications, 2018.
Mann, Thomas E., and Norman J. Ornstein. It’s even worse than it looks: How the American constitutional system collided with the new politics of extremism — basic Books, 2016.