Without us the internet would be a mess. We delete images, videos and texts which violate the rules of the social media. Most of the material that we check here comes from Europe and the US. Storyville: The Internet’s Dirtiest Secrets: The Cleaners, email extract, BBC 2019
There are smaller units in other countries but Philippines is the biggest one. There are thousands of workers here. ibid.
Our task is to monitor and moderate the user-based content. I help people. I stop the spreading of child exploitation. I have to identify terrorism. Have to step the cyber bullying. Algorithms can’t do what we do. ibid.
‘We have about 10,000 people who are working on safety and security generally and we’re committed to investing more – doubling that number by the end of 2018.’ ibid. Colin Stretch, Facebook
There’s a list of 37 terrorist organizations we have to ban. That list comes from Homeland Security in the US. ibid. email extract
Certainly I’m not going to sit on the internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge. Eminem
November 29th 2009: a quiet town in Cheshire is rocked by the discovery of a woman’s body. Her suspect is on the run, and the clues to the murder are on a social networking site. Social networks have become a twenty-first century global phenomenon, but in wrong hands there is a dark side. In the space of a year five British women were brutally murdered, all of them linked to the sinister misuse of a social network. Murder on the Social Network, 2011
The police discover that Chapman had ten social networking accounts and six thousand young female friends. ibid.
‘We know that what we’re doing matters to a lot of people.’ Horizon: Inside the Social Network: Facebook’s Difficult Year, worker, BBC 2019
For a company called Facebook you rarely get to see the faces behind the app. These are the people in charge of the biggest social media network in the world, and with nearly a third of all humans plugged into their platform it’s an experiment that comes with an enormous risk. ibid.
Data links, fake news and hacks on user security are threatening to destroy everything they’ve built, as Facebook has suffered a year of deepening scandals and intense media scrutiny. ibid.
They’ve grown a business in just fifteen years worth half a trillion dollars. ibid.
Their early mantra: Move Fast and Break Things. ibid.
They are hiring more engineers at a staggering rate. ibid.
Two teenage boys living ordinary lives in an ordinary suburb of Manchester. But beneath the surface their friendship is anything but ordinary. It leads them into a world of intrigue, deception, betrayal, a world of glamorous secret agents and deadly forfeits, a world from which the only escape is that one of the boys murder his best friend. Psycho: Kill Me If You Can, Channel 4 2005
Mark’s explanation: he’s an agent from the British secret service codename 407695: he told them he’d been recruited by a spy-mistress over the internet and instructed to kill his friend. ibid.
Mark was using the chatroom to make new friends in the Manchester area. ibid.
Even though Mark only had Rachel’s words to go on he declared his love for her across the chatroom. ibid.
At first nobody in the chatroom believed that Kevin really was a gay stalker … Kevin emailed Mark saying that he’d kidnapped his virtual girlfriend Rachel … Kevin announced that he’d released Rachel as promised … Rachel stopped communicating altogether. ibid.
16-year-old Mark and 14-year-old John were becoming best friends. ibid.
She [Janet] made him swear an oath [to the Queen] across the chatroom. ibid.
Mark … received his final instructions from Janet … to terminate James Bell – his friend John. ibid.
Mark takes out the knife: he drive it deep into John’s stomach; as he does so he tells John that he loves him. ibid.
Mark only had one – when was Janet going to turn up? ibid.
All the characters were in fact invented by the same person: whoever it was, they had incited John’s murder … The police finally had a suspect – John. ibid.
Amanda Todd, the teenager from BC, whose very name is synonymous with bullying, suicide and loss. Tonight: the never before told story of the man accused of stalking her online. How many more victims would there be? The Fifth Estate: Stalking Amanda Todd: The Man in the Shadows, CBC 2014
The story of Amanda Todd’s torment begins in the Netherlands. The teenager and her tormentor divided by continents but connected by the internet. This is the story of one Dutch man who authorities say would bully and blackmail the BC teen without ever leaving his home in Holland. He lived his life in the shadows. ibid.
They’re a new breed of cyber predators who capture the girls’ images. ibid.
Norway: he was carefully planning to ruin another girl’s life … The police were closing in. ibid.
Amanda’s death would kick that investigation into overdrive. ibid.
The arrival of social media was the next step in this evolution … Governments and militaries were even quicker in recognising the potential to use this new medium to more effectively spread their own propaganda. Their goal: to shape public discourse around global events in a way favourable to their standing military and geo-political objectives. Their method: the weaponization of social media. The Corbett Report, The Weaponization of Social Media, James Corbett online 2018
Social media was designed specifically to take advantage of your psychological weaknesses and keep you addicted to your screen. ibid.
The social media purge. The crackdown. Obviously the largest name, the big example, that everyone will point to is of course Alex Jones. The Corbett Report, Problem Reaction Solution: Internet Censorship Edition, James Corbett online 19.07
The false dichotomy … underlying assumption … the public’s fear is now Twitter and Facebook … We have got to get government in to regulate … It’s factually wrong. ibid.
He’s actually getting up there and calling for online censorship and suppression of political speech, and de-platforming people he disagrees with … It is laughable. The Corbett Report: Sacha Baron Cohen is Wrong About Everything, James Corbett online 2019
‘We have created tools that are ripping about the social fabric of how society works.’ The Corbett Report: Delete Your Social Media, James Corbett online 2022, Chamath Palihapitiya
Reflect on our time spent in mediated reality and what that really means. ibid.
Why am I on Twitter? … Hatred: it really does amp things up … It creates a lot of drama and these kind of conflicts … The message of Twitter is, I hate you. ibid.
Twitter is a waste of mind-time and is an addictive nonsense. ibid.
Tonight: Google and Facebook: just how much do they know? The tools they use to identify you even without your personal details. The terms and conditions we’re signing up for. And how other companies can harvest your information without you even knowing it. Tonight: Google, Facebook and You: What They Know, ITV 2018
Facebook’s success relies on the fact that we do give the social media platform a lot of our personal information. ibid.
Fourteen years ago after it launched, Facebook is arguably the most powerful company in the world. But a series of recent scandals has exposed problems at the heart of the social network. Inside Facebook: Secrets of the Social Network, Channel 4 2018
We reveal how Facebook deals with extreme content … Far right groups getting special protection. Is Facebook putting profits before safety? ibid.
Unless they are streamed live, videos of physical child abuse are not usually reported to the police. ibid.
Facebook’s rules state that no-one under 13 can have an account. ibid.
It is estimated that the number of content moderators scrubbing the world’s social media sites and mobile apps is over 150,000. That is more than twice the head count of Google and nearly nine times that of Facebook. Field of Vision: The Moderators, 2017
When I get up in the morning I’ll post on Instagram and then Facebook, Twitter … I have over fifty million followers … The American Meme, Paris Hilton, Netflix 2018
I love my fans just as much as they love me. ibid.
Time: The 30 Most Influential People on the Internet. ibid.
Most of these dogs are more famous than me … That’s why I have a puppy mansion. ibid. Josh Ostrovsky
I get paid great money to show the dark corners of life. ibid. Krill Buchutsky
MySpace.com is now the fastest growing site on the web. The 2000s: The Platinum Age of Television V, Shihab Rattansi, CNN news, Sky Arts 2019
Move over MySpace: college students across the country are Facebooking their classmates. ibid. Bambi Francisco