[wael] without facebook, twitter, google, youtube, appe ned. how big an impact has social networking had on our lives, it s huge. we have of the dogs on it. without facebook, twitter, google, u2, this revolution could never have happened. you guys end up spending 45 minutes or an hour instead of just going to sleep? yeah. managing my brand placements, it s a full-time job. your news fr om? before i get out of bed every morning, i m always on twitter. fake news can have real-world consequences. the pandemic wasn t real and we re here to take the country back. [music] the web is incredibly exciting because it is the fulfillment of a lot of our dreams that the computer would ultimately not be primarily a device for computation, but metamorphosize into a device for communication. [stephen] the promise of the internet from the 90s and the 2000s is that we were all going to share a big, digital community. you know, be part of the global network. and with the rise of
[wael] without facebook, twitter, google, youtube, this revolution would have never happened. do you guys end up spending 45 minutes or an hour scrolling through your phone instead of just going to sleep? [girls] yeah. managing my followers, my brand placements, it s a full-time job. your being observed constantly and algorithms are taking that information and changing what you see next until they ve changed your behavior. we didn t take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake. where are you getting your news from? before i get out of bed every morning, i m always on twitter. fake news can have real-world consequences. the pandemic wasn t real and we re here to take the country back. [music] the web is incredibly exciting because it is the fulfillment of a lot of our dreams that the computer would ultimately not be primarily a device for computation, but metamorphosize into a device for communication. [stephen] the promise of the internet from the
if all goes to plan, this community that has no paved road, piped water or grid electricity will be at the center of a mobile phone revolution. in myanmar, people are given access to mobile phones for the first time. their phones in many cases come pre-loaded with facebook. so they don t say, i m gonna go online. they say, i m gonna go to facebook. and so myanmar becomes this case study of what can go wrong when facebook enters a country. authorities in myanmar are being accused of destroying the sites of crimes against rohingya muslims. new satellite images show bulldozed villages previously burned down. many of the rohingya have been forced to flee. [sheera] you have these government-backed buddhist monks who start to spread anti-muslim ideology online, saying that there are muslims in myanmar that are raping and looting and pillaging. and people believe it.
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but it had a corrosive effect on political discourse in the social sphere. thousands of anti-globalization protesters are demanding world leaders in hamburg get out of town. in 2016, 2017, in place after place around the world, you would see, just like myanmar, these sudden explosions of communal violence. for example, that unite the right rally in charlottesville. just that all of these different far right groups that had never really successfully cooperated suddenly pulled together into this real movement. so there is a white nationalist rally and police are expecting thousands of protesters and counter-protesters. the name of today s rally is unite the right. it s about time! [max] the fact that donald trump is now president was what people initially thought was driving it, but some digital researchers figured out after the fact, that the platforms had played a really significant role