Analysis: Facebook's new emphasis on groups could leave it more vulnerable to disinformation
detailed how a closed Facebook group was ground zero for a plot to troll a Pittsburgh doctor's office urging parents to vaccinate their children.
But Barrett frets that the groups will simply replicate the same disinformation problems on the platform currently."My reaction was one of great skepticism and concern that in an effort to hold onto user volume, keep as many users as possible, that Facebook could end up just going down a different path that leads to same problems we’ve seen before," Barrett said.
BITS: Facebook's redesign represents the company's efforts to present a new face to the world after a year of controversies, But beyond these cosmetic changes, Zuckerberg is still debating how to respond to regulation and the potential tradeoffs that could come with the company's plans to reorient toward privacy and encryption.
Zuckerberg doesn't know how much profit the company will derive from encrypted messaging, but he's not worried. "Defense attorneys, artificial-intelligence researchers and civil rights experts argue that the technology could lead to the wrongful arrest of innocent people who bear only a resemblance to a video image," Drew wrote. "Rekognition’s accuracy is also hotly disputed, and some experts worry that a case of mistaken identity by armed deputies could have dangerous implications, threatening privacy and people’s lives.
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