And the media are highly receptive to her atasks after years of frustration in conservative and liberal media circles over bias, misinformation, the spread of hate and anger, the effects of Instagram On Teenage Girls and years of Zuckerberg Apologieses and belated promises to do better. Heres the thing. These arent just her opinions. Its the Tens Of Thousands of internal documents, proving that the facebook brass is fully aware of its increasingly toxic impact and hasnt done much about it that provides the storys power. And the challenge for pundits and politicians alike is to keep after perhaps the worlds most powerful media company. Im howard kurtz and this is media buzz. Howie the story kicked into overdrive when the Facebook Whistleblower revealed her identity to cbs scott pelley. The version of facebook thats with us today is tearing society apart and causing Ethnic Violence around the world. Howie her testimony drew praise from republican and Democratic Senators alike. You are a
Overdrive when the facebook whistleblower revealed her identity to cbs scott pelley. the version of facebook that s with us today is tearing society apart and causing ethnic violence around the world. howie: her testimony drew praise from republican and democratic senators alike. you are a 21st century american hero. thanks for coming forward and thanks for coming forward in the manner that you want todd have positive change. howie: most pundits are embracing her indictment of facebook. there is substantial suspicion on the right. there s a widespread understanding and particularly around the issue of kids that this is an extraordinarily harmful company. you think that this is any less pernicious than cigarettes? it s everywhere. it s everything. look at your kids. look at your life. facebook is faced with choices between getting more eyeballs on the platform, more
Shouldn t view her necessarily as being against what facebook actually wants to achieve. which is a regulatory burden that they would actually welcome because it squashes their potential competitors. howie: that s a fascinating take. fran sense frances haugen s rollout may have been a little slick. while media loves to focus on a single heroine. look, i thought that this is a very complex process and it s why the right and the left commentators don t fall into neat categories on this but frances haugen is saying something that people have been saying for years, that facebook s algorithm, the algorithm of most social 3450eda is to keep you online as long as possible so they can sell you more ads. howie: keep you addicted. extreme content keeps you online. but like you said, she has thousands and thousands of
We made it. and finally, two courageous journalists won the nobel peace prize. maria lesa has revealed corruption. that is battling for a free press under the most harrowing conditions. i m glad to see them get that kind of recognition. i don t know if journalists ever won the nobel peace prize before. maybe long ago but it s tough to do it in that kind of repress i ve. iveenvironment. that s it for this edition of media buzz. howie kurtz. i hope you like our facebook page. let s continue the conversation on twitter. check out my podcast, media buzz meter. we deal with the buzziest stories of the day every day, weekday that is. you can subscribe at apple
They re saying there s a pro with our current election system as it is, all of those speak to the fact that you re trying to weaken our democracy and therein lies the imbalance. howie: let me come back to the lead story, that is of course facebook, robby, looking at the blitz over whistleblower frances haugen, how fairly can the media report on social media such as the seemingly all powerful facebook? they can t. and this is something people really have to keep in mind. i don t think it s talked about enough. the mainstream media social media is a rival with the mainstream media. the mainstream media, the people in the new york times, washington post, newspapers, some other television channels, they are the most anti-facebook of all because they see facebook as a rival that took away their monopoly on what you goat say and discuss and get to discuss and say and hear about. they want the company destroyed most of all. a lot of the things the whore whistleblower talked about, they