Stanford Internet Observatory Research Manager Renee DiResta tells Emily Chang about how propaganda can spread on social media platforms after Twitter announced it would put labels on other state-affiliated media outlets in the coming weeks. She also explains why she thinks TikTok is worse when it comes to disinformation than Facebook or Twitter.
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Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst The role of social media in times of war is not a new thing. The last conflicts from Siria to Afghanistan, violence in Pakistan and some African countries, etc, the way are portrayed globally and locally depend on many factors, and which social media is used. It is alarming how so many narratives are allowed, and even how some are censored (who is the censor anyway?, who allow this news being reposted in social media and the other being deleted?). It really impacts the views and the hearts of many and the trends of opinions. The actual European conflict is also fought on social media (and the Ucranians are winning there globally, while the Russians control their digital media to ridiculous extremes inside their territory). This is going to get worse when social media audiences live in a Metaverse's platform, while living physically in an authoritarian society, for instance. Lot of food for thought here.