Technology continues to polarize an increasingly divided nation | Opinion
in 2020, found “significantly reduced polarization of views on policy issues,” but no diminishment of divisiveness based strictly on party identity., New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights pointed to work by Zeynep Tufekci, a sociologist and associate professor at the University of North Carolina, as an example of social media’s influence.
Facebook, YouTube and other social media and sharing platforms have pushed back against such characterizations even as those who have been on the inside of social media companies are speaking out. Frances Haugen, a former Facebook data scientist and whistleblower, told a Senate subcommittee last year that Facebook’s profit motive harms children, encourages division and undermines democracy.
The sweeping measure was designed to encourage growth and entry into the newly deregulated communications businesses, an essential next step after the courts broke up the old Ma Bell monopoly that had blocked head-to-head competition for customers and innovation. But in 1996, there were no smart phones or social media, the internet hadn’t yet become a part of every person’s life, and advertising business models had not been built on digital user interactions.
Specifically, Section 230 says that “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider,” a powerful legal shield that unfairly protects tech giants from the legal consequences for hosting or transmitting libelous or threatening comments. Newspapers and broadcasters don’t have this protection.
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