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Facebook and Google Are Guilty of a Failure to Take Ownership
After the New Zealand massacre, will governments begin to regulate how social media oversees content?
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Evil travels freely on the internet. It flickers before us in plain sight. Yet, despite the livestreamed horror of March 15 in Christchurch, New Zealand, enacting social media reforms will take massive efforts in regulation, requiring the cooperation of the tech giants, governments, and consumers.
In a perfect world, YouTube’s and Facebook’s algorithms would race through a video as soon as someone tries to upload it. If the machines recognize troubling content or a video that’s already been banned, the images would never reach the public.