How do you kill a 'zombie rumour'?

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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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Facebook is crap anyway

There is only one war that matters; The Great War. And it is here.

Surely someone already killed the zombies in the rumour?

'Just as ... technological trends have moved the average consumer of news away from traditional, reliably on-message mainstream-media outfits, those who have historically set the news agenda have rallied and are now seeking to neuter the new media domain.'

Vitality := ability to refuse to be killed.

Well the bBC, would blame white people, Christians and those who voted for Brexit

It would need a miracle to fix facebook it's absolute crap

Facebook? can‘t be removed from a mobile phone even if it is uninstalled ...

Fix Facebook by deleting Facebook

Facebook is unfixable and zombies don’t exist.

Try all warmongering media under Nuremberg VI, 'crimes against peace' might be more efficient than time spent with 'zombie rumors.'

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