CNN’s update about best-selling author Stephen King:
https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1223425267831574534?s=20
“I’m quitting Facebook,” the author said on Twitter Friday. “Not comfortable with the flood of false information that’s allowed in its political advertising, nor am I confident in its ability to protect its users’ privacy…”
- His Facebook profile has since been deleted.
King encouraged his fans to follow him on Twitter. But meanwhile…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Sunday slammed Twitter and Google for the rise in trolling networks and scams via fake bots on both the platforms…
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“The crypto scam level on Twitter is reaching new levels. This is not cool,” Musk reacted to a follower’s tweet. “Report as soon as you see it. Troll/bot networks on Twitter are a dire problem for adversely affecting public discourse and ripping people off,” he continued.
He also criticised Google for allowing scammers to flourish. “Trolls/bots just need to be deemphasized relative to probable real people who aren’t being paid to push an agenda or scam. Google still shows bs/scam pages, they’re just several clicks away,” Musk stressed.
And elsewhere, criticisms of Facebook and Google continued:
in a new interview, venture capitalist and tech critic Roger McNamee specifically singled out Facebook and Google for their roles in spreading disinformation… “[T]hey’re the reason we can’t fix climate change,” McNamee, author of the book “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe,” said this week on the [Yahoo Finance show] Final Round. "They’re the reason why we have an epidemic of measles due to the anti-vaxers. They’re the reason why white supremacy and gun violence are on the rise because they empower the most disaffected people in society, and they give them a disproportionate political voice…
“If we want to do something about climate change or gun violence or white supremacy or anti-vaxers, we’re going to have to fix Facebook and Google…”