{"id":67344,"date":"2020-10-26T14:08:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T08:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=67344"},"modified":"2021-02-05T13:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T07:52:21","slug":"social-media-and-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/social-media-and-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media and hate speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><em>Social Media &amp; hate speech<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Impact of social media:<\/em><\/strong> Social media spreads messages way faster than other forms of mass media.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly 60,000 posts are shared on Facebook in just one second across the globe.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly 8,00,000\u00a0messages are sent\u00a0in just one second\u00a0across\u00a0WhatsApp.<\/li>\n<li>Almost 70,000 searches are made on Google in just one second.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>How social media aids hate speech?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Unregulated\u00a0Information sharing\u00a0on\u00a0platform<\/em><\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0As exposed in a report by an international media organisation, Facebook is symptomatic of a larger infection of unregulated information dissemination through social media.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Hate speech against\u00a0Rohingya\u00a0minorities<\/em><\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0A Reuters investigation found that Facebook\u00a0didn\u2019t appropriately moderate hate speech and genocide calls against Myanmar\u2019s\u00a0Rohingya\u00a0minorities.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Prioritise business interest over common good<\/em><\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0It\u00a0is\u00a0even accused of conducting a psychological experiment on\u00a0its\u00a0user\u2019s emotions and more\u00a0aspect of their personality.\u00a0\u00a0 For example, Recently Facebook was accused of conducting a psychological experiment on\u00a0its\u00a0user\u2019s emotions and more\u00a0aspect of their personality.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Insensible approach<\/em><\/strong>&#8211; Google has been accused of delaying the removal of malicious content even after volunteer groups had reported it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Media &amp; hate speech Impact of social media: Social media spreads messages way faster than other forms of mass media. Nearly 60,000 posts are shared on Facebook in just one second across the globe. Nearly 8,00,000\u00a0messages are sent\u00a0in just one second\u00a0across\u00a0WhatsApp. Almost 70,000 searches are made on Google in just one second. How social&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/social-media-and-hate-speech\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social Media and hate speech<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1293],"class_list":["post-67344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-sec_1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":25,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}