Some people wonder, “What do people mean what Facebook should do?” Don’t worry, I will explain what it means. There was a video of Sinan Aral saying that Facebook and the other social media websites “should lock everything down and make sure everything is secure.” They did that because fake news is being trusted too much. But they then said that if they wanted to change how much people are believing fake news, “They should open the kimono and show us the inner working of how Facebook is working. And if we want to know social media’s affect on society, we need scientists, researchers, and others to have access to this kind of information. So what should Facebook do?
Well, Facebook and the other social media websites probably doesn’t know which one to choose, after all, it is a pretty hard choice. One choice can lead to disaster or might not lead to disaster and the other won’t lead to disaster right away but soon will because people are making tech better and better. “Some people might be scratching your head wondering what does tech have to do with anything?” Well, some people are making new tech that can make fake news, fake images, and fake videos more believable and more realistic or making real news more crazy.
So Facebook and the other social media websites should only let the scientists they want to look at the data and information look at the data and information. They should do that because then, no one else will see the information. “Yes, you might say hackers may get into it.” But hackers can also get into it even if you don’t let anyone look at it and lock it so it’s better to solve it then let it get worse. That is what Facebook and the other social media websites should do.