Keeping tabs on the gatekeepers of a social media giant
Inside Facebook was an eye-opener, revealing that the content of Mark Zuckerberg’s connected world is moderated for Britain by Irish people, based in Dublin and employed by a company called CPL
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Inside Facebook: Secrets of the Social Network: Channel 4
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Curious, isn’t it, that having managed to escape the clutches of state censorship, we are now subject to another form of censorship at the hands of content moderators for whom profit may provide some motivation not to censor at all? That was part of the message to be drawn fromInside Facebook: Secrets of the Social Network(Channel 4).
