{"id":380844,"date":"2021-12-13T16:41:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T13:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/facebook-exec-blames-users-for-spreading-misinformation\/"},"modified":"2021-12-13T16:41:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T13:41:18","slug":"facebook-exec-blames-users-for-spreading-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/facebook-exec-blames-users-for-spreading-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"#Facebook exec blames users for spreading misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> exec blames users for spreading misinformation<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Facebook doesn\u2019t spread misinformation, people do \u2014 at least that\u2019s the tech giant\u2019s take.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndividual humans\u201d are to blame for spreading misinformation on Facebook, a top executive at the company said in a new interview that aired Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Bosworth, who\u2019s developed a reputation in Silicon Valley as a trusted deputy of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, swatted down critics who say the company has amplified misinformation about COVID-19 and other topics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndividual humans are the ones who choose to believe or not believe a thing. They are the ones who choose to share or not share a thing,\u201d Bosworth said in an interview published Sunday <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/facebook-bosworth-covid-misinformation-89a751dc-6875-4ad3-8103-33cd10b9972c.html\">with \u201cAxios on HBO.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bosworth <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared in the interview to equate regulating misinformation on the platform with removing content that\u2019s simply unfavorable in the eyes of some people. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t feel comfortable at all saying they don\u2019t have a voice because I don\u2019t like what they said,\u201d he told Axios. <\/p>\n<p>Bosworth joined Facebook in 2006 and has worked on a litany of key initiatives, including boosting advertising revenue. Next year, he\u2019ll be elevated to chief <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> officer of Meta, Facebook\u2019s parent company. <\/p>\n<p>When pressed by Axios in the interview on the company\u2019s role in spreading at least some misinformation that may have contributed to vaccine hesitancy or otherwise crippled the world\u2019s pandemic response, Bosworth again shifted blame on to individuals who he said wanted to see information like that. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/facebook-covid-misinformation-users-05.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Facebook misinformation policy.\" class=\"wp-image-20467598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/facebook-covid-misinformation-users-05.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/facebook-covid-misinformation-users-05.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/facebook-covid-misinformation-users-05.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Andrew Bosworth equated regulating misinformation with removing content that\u2019s simply unfavorable in the eyes of some people.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Andrew Caballero-Reynolds\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s their choice. They are allowed to do that. You have an issue with those people. You don\u2019t have an issue with Facebook. You can\u2019t put that on me,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople want that information,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe that the answer is \u2018I will deny these people the information they seek and I will enforce my will upon them.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Axios on HBO: Incoming Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on technology\u2019s role in the spread of misinformation\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F-h97B_Y4ZM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAt some point the onus is, and should be in any meaningful democracy, on the individual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bosworth went on to question whether Facebook can itself define what misinformation is. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ability to know what is misinformation is itself in question and I think reasonably so, so I\u2019m very uncomfortable with the idea that we possess enough fundamental rightness even in our most scientific centers of study to exercise that kind of power on a citizen, another human, and on what they want to say and who they want to listen to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/facebook-covid-misinformation-users-09.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Facebook.\" class=\"wp-image-20467604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/facebook-covid-misinformation-users-09.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/facebook-covid-misinformation-users-09.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/facebook-covid-misinformation-users-09.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>In May, Facebook reversed a decision to flag posts claiming that COVID-19 was man-made.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Richard Drew\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Notably, Facebook has weighed in on what it felt was misinformation earlier in the pandemic. Facebook in February had banned posts claiming that COVID-19 is man-made or manufactured. <\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0site\u2019s fact-checkers slapped\u00a0a \u201cFalse Information\u201d notification over shares of a Feb. 23 Post op-ed by Steven Mosher, which said that the US couldn\u2019t trust China\u2019s story about the origins of COVID-19 and argued the virus\u00a0might\u00a0have escaped from a lab in Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>But in May, the company reversed that decision and said it would no longer remove posts on its platform asserting COVID-19 was man-made, after President Biden\u00a0ordered US intelligence agencies\u00a0to investigate if the virus came from a Chinese lab.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/facebook-covid-misinformation-users-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Andrew Bosworth.\" class=\"wp-image-20467613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/facebook-covid-misinformation-users-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/facebook-covid-misinformation-users-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/facebook-covid-misinformation-users-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Andrew Bosworth joined Facebook in 2006 and is expected to take on the role of chief technology officer of Meta next year.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Axios on HBO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bosworth, who often shares his views on social media and tech more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly on his blog, has previously suggested that Facebook may cause some harm, but that the good outweighs the bad. <\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/ryanmac\/growth-at-any-cost-top-facebook-executive-defended-data\">a leaked 2016 memo<\/a>, he wrote about a belief among some Facebook employees that the platform is \u201cde facto good,\u201d though it may lead to some bad outcomes, like a \u201cterrorist attack coordinated on our tools.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Bosworth and Zuckerberg later backtracked, saying the memo was meant to criticize Facebook employees who believed that.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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