Thursday 21 January 2016
Having announced plans earlier this week to invest $1.09 million in a government-backed initiative with the “objective of combating extremism and hate speech on the Internet,” Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg has now elaborated on what that might look like. Using the example of an anti-fascist campaign in Germany, where the new Online Civil Courage Initiative will be based, Sandberg explained to an audience at the World Economic Forum at Davos that simple ‘Likes’ could be used in the fight against extremism. The “like attack” used by campaigners included both ‘Liking’ the page of a neo-Nazi group, then flooding the page with…
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