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Bob Frog
September 24, 2020 at 8:41 pm
Time to PUNISH Big Tech COMMIES! By the way, Sweetie, WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY! The U.S. is a REPUBLIC! GET IT RIGHT!
Evee of the dark
September 24, 2020 at 8:58 pm
I saw the problem right from the beginning, never have and never will use social media. Read a book, gain knowledge. Facebook is brainwashing to the masses. Satan looks for weak minds to control. Social media needs to be removed permanently. Government needs to close these evil people down.
mdjubiat hossain
September 24, 2020 at 9:06 pm
my whole life changed thanks to, *p a i d t o b e h o m e .c o m*
Colin Perry
September 24, 2020 at 9:09 pm
We live in a Republic, not a Democracy. What does that even mean anyway, to “reclaim our public square”? Does that mean the right people have lost the pulpit? To be heard validated and respected is a two way street. There can be no compromise when right off the bat we are labeled as domestic terrorists.
My assessment: Let’s use our counter terrorism playbook to stop Nationalism. That’s a dog that just won’t hunt.
#SlaveLivesMatter
September 24, 2020 at 9:19 pm
Now *This* is a TED talk I can get behind. Someone who cares for all. Not someone from the regressive left.
Well done
Remy Lebeau
September 24, 2020 at 9:46 pm
Yeah well I’ll begin to believe that when she mentions hate groups on the left like antifa, msm, and BLM. They have already killed 30 people and counting in the riots.
#SlaveLivesMatter
September 24, 2020 at 9:57 pm
@Remy Lebeau well I think she was focusing on one thing. I’m sure she isn’t on board with the black supremacist group.
Card Quest
September 24, 2020 at 9:20 pm
It’s not only Facebook anymore. It’s ALL “social” media platforms. Including the one were using right now…
Putting aside political issues momentarily, a greater threat on the horizon is that they’re breaking truth. If you think things are bad now, just imagine a rouge AGI gaining access to the big data of these social media platforms. I can’t even begin to imagine the resulting complete and utter chaos lol
Remy Lebeau
September 24, 2020 at 9:29 pm
I didn’t hear one word about hate groups on the left, she just wants FB to censor the right wing even more, and silence those who expose the lies of the mainstream.
I don’t want your moderation and appeal to a supposed middle ground because I have no reason to find common ground with communists and domestic enemies of America.
She should be looking for a peaceful resolution by getting leftists to start real secessionist movements, but the fact that the left have not and will not do so speaks volumes about their true goal in destroying America rather then just leaving it and us alone.
Remy Lebeau
September 24, 2020 at 9:32 pm
If you want to live in a democracy move somewhere else, because America is NOT a DEMOCRACY!
X
September 24, 2020 at 9:44 pm
The number of dislikes is concerning. Shows how many pathetic middle aged fks are willing to defend the alien and the control he has.
Jackson8
September 24, 2020 at 9:50 pm
in other word censorship.
But to what side?
Joe Magnets
September 24, 2020 at 9:50 pm
The TRUTH? Don’t worry about the TRUTH, our kings the and those they corrupt will decide what is truth and if they, our KINGS disagree, THEY will call it ‘hate speech’ and delete it from the information that the America people need to vote with LEAD BALLOTS for those THEY keep in the dark shadow of the KINGS that now rule ‘america’ and keeps America their colony.
“THE REVOLUTION” has already happened, and you don’t even KNOW IT. The ‘right’, ‘center’, ‘left’, the ‘up’, the ‘down’, the ‘in’, the ‘out’, ALL BELONG TO THE TRAITORS and ‘our’ corrupted ‘politicians’, loyal only to their bank accounts and those that keep America their colony. What America NEEDS is a counter REVOLUTION that WE the American people will VOTE FOR, but not with worthless paper ballots, but with REAL LEAD BALLOTS that even their lobby cannot CORRUPT. Just look at the current crop of CRAP that is now running for the Presidency of America…dONALD dUCK their current JACKASS that promised to DRAIN THE SWAMP has instead BECAME THE SWAMP, surrounding himself with the PARASITES that will tell you right to your face…THEY ARE “GOD” CHOSEN PEOPLE and will ALWAYS BE LOYAL to that LAND that OUR “GOD” Gave ONLY TO ‘god’s’ chosen people, even though they are from the Khazar region of the Near EAST and NEVER LIVED in the Middle East, but because they call themselves ‘god’s’ chosen people, they have a RIGHT to kill people that never lived anywhere else but IN THE MIDDLE EAST. That THEY have a RIGHT to corrupt ‘our’ politicians’ that will sell their souls to SATAN as long as the price was correct. dONALD dUCK the TRAITOR that gives away other peoples LAND that he doesn’t own. Through corruption and deception the people that ‘god’ chose, remain the KINGS OF America, not doing what is best for America, but doing what is best for THEIR “GOD” (SATAN) and THEMSELVES. Then ya got THE TRAITOR, jOE bIDEN, that too will tell you right to your face that he’s king and ya don’t have to be ‘god’s chosen, and I add, TO BE INSANE, and bURNIE sANDERS, a ‘modified communist’ that wants to promise everyone everything for NOTHING, forgetting to mention that the ONLY FREE LUNCH IS IN A TRAP and that the middle-class tax-paying Americans will be paying for everything bURNIE want’s to ‘give away for ‘FREE’.
Ya think these INSANE ‘religious’ wars are for FREE? Who owns the ‘fed banking system’? If I told you, those at YouTUBE will call this comment, ‘HATE SPEECH’ and delete it, as they already do to anyone that has told the TRUTH about the INSANE that invented the insane clown that chose ONLY THEM, gave land ONLY TO THEM, has a ‘covenant’ ONLY WITH THEM, but has corrupted ‘our’ gov’t to send OUR SOLDiers to KILl, DIE, and become ‘wounded warriors for israel’, waste OUR TAX dollars, while THEY, ‘god’s’ chosen PAY NOTHING WITH THEIR LIVES or THEIR MONEY. ASK YOURSELVES, WHO ARE REALLY THE INSANE???
Stop being not only insane but stupid too. Obey the USA Constitution and VOTE with your LEAD BALLOTS, for those we, the American people cannot get RID OF ANY OTHER WAY. ‘VOTING’ is a joke played on the American people by the AIPAC lobby and the zionist controlled ‘news media’ that makes sure that no matter who the American people ‘choose to be the next empty-headed puppet of the zionist state in the Middle East, the zionists will decide who the American people will choose FROM. dONALD ‘the JACKASS of the zionist’ dUCK or jOE ‘the zionist’ bIDEN. Ya ‘real change’.
You may vote as many times as lead ballots you have. VOTE NOW and VOTE OFTEN, it’s the ONLY answer to a gov’t that has become so DANGEROUS to the American people and the rest of the world, the ‘american’ colony of ‘the god’s chosen people’, once known as America.
THE POINT, the people that invented a ‘god’ that chose ONLY THEM and gave land ONLY TO THEM have already won, but it’s still not too late to make THEM extinct using LEAD BALLOTS.
Joe Magnets
JRBendixen
September 24, 2020 at 10:09 pm
Oh yes a culture of love will solve everything.
She is mad, bc there are many madmen/women out there and her goal is none of us are allowed to point them out.
Smoov Cat
September 24, 2020 at 10:15 pm
There will never not be a divide between me and people who want to take away my right to defend myself. People who think the divide is a bad thing are dumb. Its authoritarians who are a bad thing.
Nick Hallett
September 24, 2020 at 10:47 pm
Nicholas Hallett, 23 of Tucson Arizona, the majority of registered voters in my state are Independents yet we have to switch to either rep or dem to vote for president which can be a form of disenfranchisement or voter suppression, the two party candidates are both terrible options just like it was in 2016. What can we do except a nonviolent overthrow somehow someway
My thoughts..
Steven Rodgers
September 24, 2020 at 10:50 pm
Thank you.. appreciate all your efforts
Neneng's Life In The Province Vlog
September 24, 2020 at 10:59 pm
Sharing grest good morning
Brent Testerman
September 24, 2020 at 11:51 pm
WOW! A truly neutral video on TED!
rcmen231
September 24, 2020 at 11:56 pm
Wow
H Max
September 25, 2020 at 12:11 am
I have deleted as much likes on YouTube, I have also deleted or changed my information on my profile. I have seen comments that have disrespected me but when I commented against that person I was reported to facebook and banned. When I report people’s comments, I get told by Fakebook The comment does not violate their rules.
Sheri M
September 25, 2020 at 12:18 am
Imagine if FB folks hadn’t been education-institutionalized by communist propaganda!???! The bosses are all global elitists and “win” without remorse is their goal! Moral values have been deleted from the hearts, minds and souls of the “elitists”!
0 0
September 25, 2020 at 12:33 am
Former CIA got u hired. Get u hired anywhere in the world.
0 0
September 25, 2020 at 12:33 am
Hearts and minds doesn’t work. Ex. Vietnam
Mika Mäntykumpu
September 25, 2020 at 12:42 am
I thought the USA was a republic not a democracy. When people are voting for a new president, their votes actually don’t matter (see 2016). What matter is those few elected officials in every state that have been voting (mainly) for a democrat or a republican since 1850s. So I’d say your “democracy” has been broken for almost two centuries. Since that time your so called free press has been in hands of either two parties. Only 7.8 million voters knew in 2016 that they COULD vote for someone else apart from the big two. But it’s better than in 2012 when only 2.2 million voters didn’t vote for the big two. That’s the rise of social media and less censored information.
As a Finn I don’t comprehend how two-party system is democratic (or can even work properly). In our political field both democrats and republicans would be in right, possibly in the same party. Our current parlament that consists of 200 people includes eleven different parties. The government has representatives from six different parties.
Cheryl McPhee
September 25, 2020 at 1:21 am
Thank you. Well said
Benjamin I Meszaros
September 25, 2020 at 1:21 am
Add Google and Twitter to this list
Kamil Luboch
September 25, 2020 at 3:31 pm
That’s why we have covid! Just checkout Facebook, Google, Amazon and others stockmarket incomes since “e-pandemia” appears. World is broken:(
W Serba
September 25, 2020 at 3:43 pm
Heard, valued, and respected: The exact opposite of Facebook’s algorithms.
iikimida
September 25, 2020 at 4:03 pm
You can get off facebook if you dont like it. If your kids are taken care of and given the attention and boundaries, they won’t be in a situation to be “vulnerable” “taregeted” “manipulated” by [[information ]]in the world. There had been and will always be noises in the world. You can scream about your annoyances or you can simply get out by putting your phone down/ remove the app/ cancel your account.
For the ones that likes to stay on either side of the extremes, they need debates and converse their point of views, not to be “removed” or defined ” destroyed”. The two extremes are basically two idealists with different definitions. Neither are wrong, just need to understand where the other side comes from too.
Create a new platform for people to converse is the solution. Not finger- pointing to fb just because it’s big.
Ken Tan
September 25, 2020 at 4:51 pm
The main problem is that these platform are becoming more and more personalized to the specific customer. They are not showing the generalized information but the personalized information which are in favor of personal interest. This will limited personal’s view which could manipulate their mind.
Nick Frankel
September 25, 2020 at 5:25 pm
This is powerful.
Eli Nope
September 25, 2020 at 6:00 pm
I see more promotion with the Streisand Effect than any type of benefit gained by censoring wrongthink. Censorship cannot fix polarization as it pushes some people out of the conversation. Those people stop listening, they become polarized.
Padder Zahoor
September 25, 2020 at 6:20 pm
Such a great message for the men in understanding.
But where the problem lies? What is the root cause of all these issues? It is definitely our policies or we can say that our constitution. Our Constitution defines laws for what has happened in the past and it is not ready for what will happen in the feature. There should be laws that should govern public interests and in general, the public benefit.
fluffysheap
September 25, 2020 at 6:37 pm
I wish there were more specific actions recommended. There’s a lot of space for constructive, Constitutionally permissible action between where we are now and the Ministry of Truth.
The only concrete proposal here is that social media companies should have to publish, or at least explain, their recommendation algorithm. Is that enough? Or is there more? It feels like there should be more.
_ PopularNutria66
September 25, 2020 at 7:10 pm
So. Fucking. True.
They won’t listen though, unfortunately.
cq33xx
September 25, 2020 at 7:53 pm
you have no idea what the problem is and you have nothing useful to propose as a result
James Tien
September 25, 2020 at 7:55 pm
Facebook & all key social media platforms are in online biz & answerable to major shareholders & big investors. Their biz are based on consumer goods advertising model in order to attract more & more advertisers who wanted only measurable reach & engagement. These big advertisers are responsible to report quantifiable ads performance in order to keep their own jobs & justify more ads budget to develop their brands. What are urgently needed now are effective parental controls on children exposing to / using these social media & most of all new legislations / relevant laws on social media platforms to protect all consumers and at the same time create a regulated equal-level playing ground for online corporations.
Wol747
September 25, 2020 at 8:13 pm
Look at the mental state of someone who uses Twitter almost 24/7.
The US president, and teenagers.
Warren Zebon fan
September 25, 2020 at 8:32 pm
Defund facistbook
John Shafer
September 25, 2020 at 8:35 pm
Don’t forget that YouTube is social media. They are just as much involved with manipulating people.
Hasan minhaj
September 25, 2020 at 8:37 pm
🐂💩💩
Siddarth
September 25, 2020 at 8:41 pm
There will be an alternative to Facebook by 2023, Just wait for it and take care of your privacy till then 🙃
Meann ush
September 25, 2020 at 9:13 pm
why is the like/dislike ratio so bad? do these people not want to listen?
K H
September 25, 2020 at 9:23 pm
什么时候有中文字幕呀？
Robert Kildoo
September 25, 2020 at 9:59 pm
Brilliant! Exactly right.
Milfeulle100
September 25, 2020 at 11:03 pm
It’s a WEBSITE, not a government. They don’t need to be democratic. I’m not saying what they’re doing is okay, I’m just saying a website is not obligated to be democratic unless it is owned and run by a democratic government.
David Rintoul
September 25, 2020 at 11:09 pm
Very well presented and insightful!!
dave75244
September 26, 2020 at 12:40 am
Welcome to Facebook, otherwise know as Zuckerberg’s Sewer. It’s the only sewer too creepy for Pennywise.
Raquel Mandocdoc
September 26, 2020 at 12:49 am
Thank you for sharing, Yael.
Heros Eloi
September 26, 2020 at 1:11 am
I haven’t seen people complaining about misinformation spreaded on social media during Obama’s administration. Both sides lie, both sides manipulate, both sides misinform. Only those who have lost their power, now are fighting against social media. By the way, Facebook sucks.
Rhapsidy B.
September 26, 2020 at 1:16 am
We are not a democracy.
Choogo
September 26, 2020 at 7:03 am
This is absolutely fake. She is pretending to advocate for truth, fairness and facts. In reality she is just trying to push Facebook to censor the right. Her political leanings were on full display.
Peter Nakitch
September 26, 2020 at 7:20 am
Facebook doesn’t care, all that matters is making money. Nor News Limited, nor Google or Amazon, etc. Nor any other multi-national. Welcome to globalisation!
Woyam Chny
September 26, 2020 at 9:32 am
Facebook can’t touch me because I don’t use it.
The Evil That Men Do
September 26, 2020 at 10:22 am
I love how passionatly you portray your ideas and ideals.
I am not an expert in this field. However, i have observed lots of people close to me and myself too.
I can be manipulated a bit on things i do not know well yet. But i will NEVER be engaged in things such as heatrage, revenge, orgnanised crime. No matter what i hear, see, or experience.
I not defending FAKEBOOK here, but what my example proves is that i know what is right and wrong for me. And i speak and act accordingly.
Even if i hoped so, at least for my extended family, i cannot say they have good morals and know what ethic is about.
I do not have a solution for this issues you are talking about. But if i were to start from somewhere, i would start from going into households and educate people there, especially the youngsters.
In the long run, they would turn the back on things such as FAKEBOOK without me turning the lights on many other shows as poisonous as FAKEBOOK.
The real enemy are all those broken souls that spent the best of their time on such platform getting poisoned by their own anger, envy, revenge. FAKEBOOK and the likes are AMPLIFIERS of our EVIL intent.
Bubber Cakes
September 26, 2020 at 1:19 pm
Thank you. It seems that every time I get on facebook I get an upset stomach. I had hopes that I could reason with the extremists. Hate to leave it to the nutjobs.
Pat Bluetree
September 26, 2020 at 1:39 pm
Never had it, never will.
Dhamo Dharan
September 26, 2020 at 2:28 pm
I’m trying to get out of fb but i can’t.
SpectreOZ
September 26, 2020 at 2:29 pm
Guard rails? Algorithms? Government intervention?
Sounds like censorship advocacy 🤮
Mike Seier
September 26, 2020 at 3:07 pm
The internet is paradoxically the best invention ever,.. And also the worst invention ever.
Henly Forbesly
September 26, 2020 at 3:37 pm
Such a powerful speech!
tara sa dagat
September 26, 2020 at 3:47 pm
I don’t understand the hate for Facebook, for goodness sake nobody is forcing you to use it.
anatoli p
September 26, 2020 at 3:48 pm
Social media = cancer
ITouchTheSky 8GladysWorld8
September 26, 2020 at 4:30 pm
Thank you so much for talking of this topic. Very informative.
Aviri Char
September 26, 2020 at 4:52 pm
yeah no, fb, and yt, and google, aren’t the “public square” to begin with, they are for-profit entertainment companies, period — and it’s not the lawmakers who need to demand of media (new or old) to stop eating the public square for profiteering purposes, it’s we the public who need to demand of our lawmakers (new and old) to stop eating our public institutions for profiteering (unrestrained corporate bribery made legal in political donations and clear co-opting machinery) purposes, including establishment (old/legacy) media basically serving as the propaganda arm thereof
stop attributing utter lack of even correlative proof as being not just related but the actual cause of the problem — in other words, apply science, not quackery
don’t blame the lack of trust on “russia russia russia” and “zucky the punchingbag mark-berg” as scapegoats
own up, fix our democracy where it’s actually broken, in the hyper-capitalistic greed driving it at its core now
kalley Usha
September 26, 2020 at 5:24 pm
JoeTube
September 26, 2020 at 5:28 pm
Its all about protecting people from free speech. Protecting them from opinions that aren’t left wing approved. So its not about not using something you don’t like, but FORCING other people to not use something you don’t approve of. Step by step into fascism. Modern leftist politics is pure cancer.
Gianni Marco
September 26, 2020 at 6:20 pm
Look at Facebook maybe once every 3 – 6 months, for less than 5 minutes. Instagram is just for keeping up-to-date on current events because I don’t use Twitter, and that is also limited to 5 minutes. I prefer being happy over being upset…and I see people on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are all too often upset & angry.
giannina2404
September 26, 2020 at 6:43 pm
Unless you have been living under a rock the past few years, NOTHING of what she said is new.
goga gogochuri
September 26, 2020 at 7:25 pm
Lisa Love Ministries
September 26, 2020 at 8:24 pm
Seek God’s will daily.
1 Corinthians 15:3-5
Arnold Mavromatis
September 26, 2020 at 10:43 pm
Impressed, well said.
I May Have Miscalculated -
September 26, 2020 at 10:51 pm
I’d like to take this moment to point out that the platform that is most antithetical to long-form reasoned discourse – Twitter – is also a cesspool of blindly-polarized political outrage, leftist more often than not. Facebook isn’t the platform you need to be focusing on, here. But then, given your penchant for government control instead of grassroots change, it doesn’t seem like the people who thrive most on Twitter are the ones you want suppressed.
Debbie Wilson
September 27, 2020 at 12:45 am
Yikes I wouldn’t have done this talk, as FB has gotten WAY worse politically LOL and it’s obvious which way you lean through this talk, and through FB. Jeez.
Emile Bourbeau
September 27, 2020 at 12:59 am
Aaaaaaaa freaking men!!!!!!
George George
September 27, 2020 at 1:00 am
Also deleted Facebook.
cbapiaz
September 27, 2020 at 6:35 am
Is sad. A lot of people get consumed/manipulated by Facebook, specially uneducated and older ppl. There’s no control no accountability for these big companies.
learn
September 27, 2020 at 8:39 am
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kapresovsk
September 27, 2020 at 11:08 am
if an app delivers content that you are not interested in, I guess that is actually a definition of broken service. nobody would use that. if it delivers what you want, you complain about it being manipulative. wow, what catch! I guess this is a Catch XX,XX
kapresovsk
September 27, 2020 at 11:13 am
current problems are caused by ruthless rich people getting ever richer, with support from governments all around the world, but i would humbly suggest, that it is not necessarily people in facebook.
Justin Kincaid
September 27, 2020 at 12:30 pm
The corrupt politicians and scared Americans destroyed democracy not Facebook.
relikvija
September 27, 2020 at 1:01 pm
She is right, blm and antifa are terrorist groups!
relikvija
September 27, 2020 at 1:03 pm
Vote Trump 2020!!
Quazgaa Schwaa
September 27, 2020 at 1:17 pm
“Hi, I’m from the CIA and I’m here to sound the alarm that your internet is not censored and controlled enough! That’s pretty legit, right?”
wwe supreworld
September 27, 2020 at 1:46 pm
I don’t know who needs to hear this, you’ve got to stop saving money. Invest some part of it, if you really want financial freedom
wwe supreworld
September 27, 2020 at 3:00 pm
@Mark Steve Also on TELLERGRAM
@lydia_wood
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September 27, 2020 at 3:24 pm
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September 27, 2020 at 3:24 pm
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DoraTheMemeExplorer
September 27, 2020 at 2:01 pm
W I D E
Holly
September 27, 2020 at 2:06 pm
Yahhs! Thank you for being able to articulate this issue. I miss the days you could have a difference in opinion without feeling attacked via social media platforms, etc. Polarization is HUGE rn.
Anjali Donaldson
September 27, 2020 at 2:10 pm
Australia is trying by asking Google to pay our media to repost their work and Google is throwing their weight back…
TennesseeJed
September 27, 2020 at 3:45 pm
Corporate greed and it’s government influence will always outweigh the people’s wishes. We need extreme changes in our democracy before it is too late.
Joanne Carroll
September 27, 2020 at 5:48 pm
It’s not in Big Social Media’s (ALL of them) interest to promote this video, so naturally it wasn’t recommended by the YT algorithm. No surprise there.
Dmytro Morozov
September 27, 2020 at 6:06 pm
Disagree, if bad people go away from Facebook how you will find them, you think if you destroy Facebook all people become happy? Just don’t use Facebook if you think it’s a good decision for you, as I did.
Rajesh Vj
September 27, 2020 at 6:16 pm
I don’t use Facebook last 10 yrs, even forgot my login 😀
kulsum Sheikh
September 27, 2020 at 7:01 pm
The real truth is that it’s a global problem now, social media platforms helping government so that they can exploit our rights, our right to question etc. Basically our democracy
danish khan
September 27, 2020 at 8:58 pm
Shared this video on Facebook😛📖
Valco
September 27, 2020 at 9:00 pm
Keep using facebook, there’s nothing wrong with social media.
Plantaseed
September 27, 2020 at 9:23 pm
Thank you for your message, and your direct words to the CEOs. Deleting FB was one of the most liberating and freeing things I’ve ever done. I don’t miss it at all.
Sean Carney
September 28, 2020 at 12:48 am
Social media shouldn’t be having this big of an impact on our lives.
Red Sparks
September 28, 2020 at 12:50 am
Honestly I have never used Spybook, oops I mean Facebook, even though my “real” friends and family have asked me to join. I prefer being invited to an actual dinner than being invited to a web page. I’m only a phone call or text message away.
s3xyScorp
September 28, 2020 at 1:15 am
Free speach YES or NO
Dont like FB dont use it
Merry Medeiros
September 28, 2020 at 1:15 am
Depression is real THIS BROAD IS NOT I am sorry but I am in the middle of I don’t even know what in layman’s terms THAT WAS HORRIBLE
Ronald Caliva
September 28, 2020 at 1:24 am
It’s very disturbing to see ur friends on fb keep posting what’s been happening in their lives ,what they have for dinner on the table, where they have been to ,its ok to post once in a while but to post almost the same thing over and over is very annoying.
WildFire And Earth
September 28, 2020 at 1:38 am
If social media could “break” democracy it wasn’t all that stable to begin with.
gsgt hulka
September 28, 2020 at 2:09 am
Does anyone else find it disturbing that a social media platform is recruiting CIA analysts for employment? Nothing against the speaker personally, I think her message was a good one (aside from wanting the government to control social media), but the CIA perfected the techniques that these platforms are using.
James w
September 28, 2020 at 3:05 am
Her voice is so stripper like
Clear Mindset
September 28, 2020 at 5:31 am
Good work ted love your videos I have even started my own channel need help getting subscribes to everyone who’s watching this I need to reach a 1000 subscribers so please help me
Rohan
September 28, 2020 at 11:57 am
Also include subtitle plz..some words out f my mind
Furan T
September 28, 2020 at 3:04 pm
I deactivated my acc 1 mnth ago
Cause it was occupying my mind. #fuckfacebook
Don Honas
September 28, 2020 at 3:36 pm
The problem of the state of democracy is because of social media… That might be a part of it, but far from all of it.
Oksana None
September 28, 2020 at 5:08 pm
They get paid by Democratic Party like fake media reminds me communist regime from back home I escaped from there and here I am SAME sadly
Çommenter Person
September 28, 2020 at 6:39 pm
FB is not the problem; you seem mad that control has been partially lost.
Let’s fix congress/etc — AKA the malfunctioning thing that enables facebook/etc to free-willy abuse/exploit people.
Fishy misdirection; using the same tactic to persuade people.
closed butopen
September 28, 2020 at 8:01 pm
R/insanepeopleoffacebook
Black Dandelion
September 28, 2020 at 10:03 pm
Please don’t close the TED channel in Russian
Excel Barbosa
September 28, 2020 at 10:08 pm
Who much is Facebook Worth ? I’d like to buy it .. It is possible with just ESP ? No Reason Behind it .. Just to have it under my name ..
Excel Barbosa
September 28, 2020 at 10:24 pm
Ted Talks are amazing i always loved them .. The name itself is brilliant.. Ideas worth spreading .. I Have a book called .. “Moved By Ideas” .. It’s quite what we should be like in society .. But quality has no to be a priority to this level of intellectual perception ..
Excel Barbosa
September 28, 2020 at 10:26 pm
I would replace for Her For Mark any day!
Ralph White
September 29, 2020 at 12:23 am
Dear Democracy, this is how Facebook is breaking you?
Corey Burnett
September 29, 2020 at 1:26 am
One solution would be to require Facebook to move to a subscription platform and to ban all advertising on the site. They could still make huge piles of money. But they would no longer have any financial incentive to keep people engaged and keep people riled up.
suraj amom
September 29, 2020 at 1:31 am
☺🙏
Jetrefilm Entertainment
September 29, 2020 at 1:51 am
I am pretty sure “breaking democracy” is part of Facebook’s mission statement.
indiegogogirl
September 29, 2020 at 1:54 am
Censorship is the actual problem.
Michael Read
September 29, 2020 at 2:10 am
Thank you.
Sweet Love 143
September 29, 2020 at 2:57 am
Before Facebook I used Friendster.
Vigram vasi
September 29, 2020 at 3:39 am
Nothing is free. You either pay cash or pay your privacy!
Homeworld Music
September 29, 2020 at 5:07 am
I have to tell this lady, not that she’s interested in anything other than the sound of her own voice, that Facebook is how I briefly connect with friends and then leave. It is not a source of news, disinformation, or anything other than casual interaction with friends and groups.
Eli Elfassy
September 29, 2020 at 5:38 am
The biggest problems with facebook are 1.Collecting Data 2.Cenzuring data. 3. Pushing Data they want…. Dicatatorship is easier when you give people the elusion they are free!
cantika putri
September 29, 2020 at 5:54 am
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Quagthistle
September 29, 2020 at 9:44 am
Social media isn’t the only “rabbit hole”. The news organizations are polarizing (and no one holds them accountable for disseminating misinformation – hello, Fox News). The two parties are both profiting off of polarizing people (and no one holds them accountable for lying, either). Social media companies are simply swept along (though they aren’t doing much, if anything to change things, either). It’d be VERY difficult for a social media companies to fix this, as they aren’t the only sources of it. Trying to fix the social media misinformation flood could VERY easily turn into China-esque censorship. That said, I detest Facebook for banning me because I abbreviate my name for safety (I have a unique name). So yeah, I haven’t used Facebook in many years, either.
husain sariya
September 29, 2020 at 12:01 pm
Still AI is in its initial phases, and we can see the artificial intelligence in wrong hands devastating minds , i love hollywood scifi, ofcourse even now and then they make sense
husain sariya
September 29, 2020 at 12:04 pm
facebook ,biggest threat to india then any other country in the world , which by far is still a democracy and i pray it always should be one.
Abdul
September 29, 2020 at 1:12 pm
Yes its true, in india a politician who is known for his hate speeches was not removed from Facebook until the matter was moved to court and it all began with wall street journal exposing Facebook.
K's Account
September 29, 2020 at 1:43 pm
Just the words she uses and how she speaks is manipulative. It really comes across as her being fully supportive of the government being able to control more of our lives. No thank you.
Edson rebel
September 29, 2020 at 1:44 pm
Shut up karen
Samuel Chaves
September 29, 2020 at 1:46 pm
TED makes me smarter, I’m really thankful for its existence, thank you for all the owners and workers, let’s build a better society 🙏🌐
Utkarsh Rajpurohit
September 29, 2020 at 2:20 pm
I DONT USE FACEBOOK
Yang Luo
September 29, 2020 at 4:44 pm
In the western world, the ppl who grow up locally in their whole life, I’d say most of the ppl in a large proportion, were planted and bred with thoughts against China, using information which is generally out dated from the last century. Thanks to the unremitting efforts and contributions from politicians and capitalists. We gain initiative and solidarity from all of that.
RAFIQUL HAQUE
September 29, 2020 at 7:04 pm
Facebook must have a Dislike button. It also should delete unsocial elements asap. But unfortunately fb authority is not doing this. Moreover, zuckerberg is making money from the undemocratic and fascist political leaders all over the world. Facebook is also liable for lynching and genocide, one being Rohinga genocide in Myanmar. How to solve this problem? What is the future of democracy/ generations to come? Not clear.
B H
September 30, 2020 at 2:21 am
Ah, well… Perhaps the biggest challenge of all is the fact that people become bullies because they are sitting behind computer screens, and aren’t face to face with someone they disagree with. Finding yourself engaging in political, environmental, or any other form of social dialogue in which you become uncivil is demeaning, and often demoralizing. Focusing on the good, chiefly by recognizing what isn’t good, and eliminating it, will go farther to promote healthy commentary than anything else. Leave behind any social media platform that causes you to become what you don’t want to be.
Blizz R.
September 30, 2020 at 3:56 am
All the social media is just the door. The door for what’s inside the ppl mind.
Ppl just hurt themselves through social media.
And blame everything but themselves.
Dr Nyan Win Kyaw
September 30, 2020 at 12:26 pm
Really!!!
Lê Thị Hồng Nhung
September 30, 2020 at 1:45 pm
Around five years ago, it struck me that I was losing the ability to engage with people who aren’t like-minded. The idea of discussing hot-button issues with my fellow Americans was starting to give me more heartburn than the times that I engaged with suspected extremists overseas. It was starting to leave me feeling more embittered and frustrated. And so just like that, I shifted my entire focus from global national security threats to trying to understand what was causing this push towards extreme polarization at home. As a former CIA officer and diplomat who spent years working on counterextremism issues, I started to fear that this was becoming a far greater threat to our democracy than any foreign adversary. And so I started digging in, and I started speaking out, which eventually led me to being hired at Facebook and ultimately brought me here today to continue warning you about how these platforms are manipulating and radicalizing so many of us and to talk about how to reclaim our public square. I was a foreign service officer in
Richard Wells
September 30, 2020 at 6:15 pm
Brilliantly spoken.
Aaron Bordner
October 1, 2020 at 12:52 am
I deleted facebook last night it’s so fucking toxic.
BS1
October 1, 2020 at 4:32 am
Facebook/Trump is a like a Conputer Virus …. Watch “Cambridge Analytica explains how the Trump campaign worked” on YouTube
Ryan Hartwig - Official
October 1, 2020 at 11:02 pm
Working on my rebuttal of this video right now.
JoeNoobie
October 2, 2020 at 12:22 am
just started it, but why is this seminar on TED? Shouldn’t this spook’s seminar be on TEDX? TED is supposed to be like stem stuff.
Mersini L
October 3, 2020 at 5:36 am
Did life exist before facebook? YES. Do we all really need to be just followers? NO. I quit ALL social media. I decided to NOT be a follower any more. One of the best decisions I made for sure!!!
Alexandr Shchipanov
October 3, 2020 at 8:56 am
Delirium of the fired lady