TED 2019: How to kill a zombie rumour and fix Facebook
Roger McNamee is a venture capitalist and early investor in Facebook. He became so disillusioned with the direction the firm was taking that he wrote a book called 'Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook catastrophe'.
Mr McNamee was also concerned about a firm that had recently been expelled from the platform for selling data on people who had expressed an interest in Black Lives Matter and selling that data to police departments.Shortly after the presidential election, it became obvious that Facebook had a much bigger problem when it emerged that 126 million Facebook users had been targeted by Russian trolls spreading misinformation.
"You did not need to be on Facebook in Myanmar to be dead. You just needed to be a Rohingya," he said. At TED he said that he discovered a complex picture, with the content makers ranging from disillusioned teenagers to white supremacists living in California.
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