NEW YORK“Crazy to think that Facebook has influenced the election with the false information published on our pages.” Mark Zuckerberg reacts to the allegations in a storm on the social network, the most influential of the world, the channel that was used to inquire from the 44 percent of americans. Were certainly not only the buffaloes on the web to hijack the votes to Trump, but the founder of Facebook is wrong to use tones so peremptory, and says something that isn’t true when he says that the false story circulating on the Network, with no verification of truthfulness made by the traditional media, are equally distributed between pro-Trump and pro-Clinton: an analysis of Buzzfeed indicates that those who have benefited the republican candidate were the double of those favourable to the former first lady.
a Question of quantity, but al so of intensity: “The rise of Trump was favored by the news feeds of social networks,” says LinkedIn Bobby Goodlatte, a product designer who has worked for four years to Fecebook. “These feed work with algorithms that maximize the involvement of the users. And the like attract much more of a true story” is checked, no false suggestions.
“One of the many channels”
Facebook, which, until recently, boasted its centrality in the information, while now ” he explains with the sudden modesty of his spokesperson that “in the elections we were only one of the many channels with which the citizens received information”, can not be called out. But certainly the influence that technology has had on the outcome of the vote goes far beyond the company of Zuckerberg.
The companies of Silicon Valley, still under the shock of an event that is judged to be unthinkable, victory Trump, prepare to deal with a president that wants to block the inflow of immigrants (essential for companies in need of brains, and foreign), which has threatened to launch initiatives antitrust authority against Amazon and wants to push Apple to produce everything in America. There are those who climb on the barricades as the venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar: it proposes the secession of California from the Usa and he is ready to fi nance its campaign. But, stored the reviews disparaging, tend the hand. The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, hated by Trump, especially for the attacks of his Washington Post, congratulates: “I Welcome his election, without prejudice, and I wish you great success.” The same Zuckerberg who in the past had criticized openly Trump (“we build bridges, not walls”), now says that those who take issue with Facebook for the outcome of the vote, “has not understood what has moved the voters”. What? He does not explain it, but many of the items any self-criticism in the Silicon Valley that now you wonder about what has happened, indicate three factors, all influenced by technology.
three factors
The first concerns development of digital platforms that has led to the decline of journalism, the loss of weight of the checks on the stories put in a Network to a reduced relevance of certain facts. In the echo chamber of digital tools of communication and the suggestions of the count of the actions. He understood well, Trump got on the political stage six years ago with the hoax of president Obama illegitimate because he was born outside the Usa and is ready to use another against Ted Cruz when the senator of Texas was becoming a dangerous opponent: “His father involved in the killing of Oswald, the assassin of John Kennedy”.
The second fact concerns the security of the Internet. Many perceive the ease with which hackers have stolen entire archives of email from the democratic Party or of the campaign of Hillary Clinton as a technological failure of companies in the sector, unable to protect their systems. The third and per haps most controversial, concerns the labour factor. Digital businesses have always seen the technology as a positive factor for everyone: makes your life easier, eliminates heavy work transferred to the machines, creates new, less alienating. But now that, in addition to the work in the foundry and painting, disappear, also those of the office suddenly finds a huge social problem of the number of jobs and inequalities in pay.
blue-Collar workers towards Trump
The visionary of the electric car and space, Elon Musk, says that the millions of drivers who will lose their jobs in the truck driving alone no need to worry: one day receive a salary paid by the work of the robot. In anticipation of this fabulous world, however, the blue-collar workers were without a job or paid less if they go by Trump. Silicon Valley suddenly finds that the technology is not a panacea for all. “We need to breathe deeply and reflect on what has happened,” says venture capitalist Mark Suster to the New York Times. “We need a policy proposal that addresses in a realistic way the inequalities that plague this Country.”
November 11, 2016 (change to November 12, 2016 | 01:06)
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