Whose Internet Ethics?

The 3,000 Russian-connected ads that Facebook agreed to turn over to Congress is only one of several scandals surrounding the social media behemoth in the last weeks. Additionally, users were outraged to discover that the platform was suppressing posts from Rohingya activists in Myanmar and, along with Twitter and Google, allowing advertisers to use bigoted language in ad targeting. But while the public demands better of the platforms, the sheer scale of their operations raises difficult questions about the enforcement of universal definitions of hate speech. And when Facebook does impose its ethical standards, is it exercising monopolistic control over internet dialogue? Brooke talks with technology writer, commentator and entrepreneur Paul Ford about the difficulty of defining ethics in the digital age.

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Tomorrow Never Knows by Quartetto d'Archi Dell'Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Guiseppe Verdi