Letters to the Editor, Sunday, Feb. 7
Hendersonville Times-News
Tune in The Social Dilemma on Netflix
To the Editor: I strongly urge you to see “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix, if you have not yet seen it. Through interviews with former executives and developers for Google, FaceBook, Twitter, etc., this explains how social media is using subtly insidious methods to manipulate your opinions, moving each of us further right, or further left, and exacerbating political divisions. The Russians did not need to “hack” FaceBook; they merely used the tools that Facebook developed and which are available to their advertisers. We need to be alert to this because we can’t rely on the “fact checking” algorithms in the media; we must be personally vigilant.