Is Social Media a Threat to Democracy? Issue Six: Intolerance, exclusion of marginalized voices, public humiliation and hate speech • Rajagopalan, Internet Trolls Are Using Facebook To Target Myanmar’s Muslims (repeat citation) • Ressa, Propaganda war: Weaponizing the Internet. (repeat citation) • Robert Barnes, Supreme Court case tests the limits of free speech on Facebook and other social media, The Washington Post, Published November 23, 2014, https://www. washingtonpost.com/national/supreme-court-casetests-the-limits-of-free-speech-on-facebook-and-othersocial-media/2014/11/23/9e54dbd8-6f67-11e4-ad123734c461eab6_story.html?utm_term=.44b93e6f40d0 • Hein Ko Soe, Hitting back against hate speech, Frontier Myanmar, Published September 16, 2016, https:// frontiermyanmar.net/en/hitting-back-against-hatespeech • Yi Shu Ng, Facebook finds it tough figuring out real hate speech from puns, Mashable, Published May 29, 2017, http://mashable.com/2017/05/29/facebook-myanmarhate-speech/#M9iVt2v_jkqi Looking Forward and Near Term Approach • Mathew Ingram, Mark Zuckerberg Finally Admits Facebook Is a Media Company, Fortune, Published December 23, 2016, http://fortune.com/2016/12/23/ zuckerberg-media-company/ • Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner, How do you stop fake news? In Germany, with a law, The Washington Post, Published April 5, 2017, https://www. washingtonpost.com/world/europe/how-do-you-stopfake-news-in-germany-with-a-law/2017/04/05/e6834ad61a08-11e7-bcc2-7d1a0973e7b2_story.html? • Laura Hazard Owen. Republicans seem more susceptible to fake news than Democrats (but liberals, don’t feel too comfy yet), NeimanLab, Published May 5, 2017, http:// www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/republicans-seem-moresusceptible-to-fake-news-than-democrats-but-liberalsdont-feel-too-comfy-yet/ • Zack Beauchamp, Democrats are falling for fake news about Russia, Vox, Published May 19, 2017, https://www. vox.com/world/2017/5/19/15561842/trump-russialouise-mensch Thinking Long Term • April Simpson, First Look Media and Democracy Fund to provide $12M for investigative journalism, Current.org, Published March 27, 2017, https://current.org/2017/03/ first-look-media-and-democracy-fund-to-provide-12mfor-investigative-journalism/ • Anita Singh, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar commits $100m to fight ‘fake news’ and hate speech, The Telegraph, Published April 4, 2017, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ news/2017/04/04/ebay-founder-pierre-omidyar-commits100m-fight-fake-news-hate/ • Katie Collins, Facebook spearheads $14M consortium to counter fake news, CNet, Published April 3, 2017, https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-spearheads-14mconsortium-to-counter-fake-news/ • Elle Hunt, ‘Disputed by multiple fact-checkers’: Facebook rolls out new alert to combat fake news, The Guardian, Published March 22, 2017, https://www.theguardian. com/technology/2017/mar/22/facebook-fact-checkingtool-fake-news • Natasha Lomas, Facebook takes its fake news fight to Germany, Tech Crunch, Published January 16, 2017, https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/16/facebook-takes-itsfake-news-fight-to-germany/ • Davey Alba, YouTube’s Ad Problems Finally Blow Up in Google’s Face, Wired, Published March 25, 2017, https:// www.wired.com/2017/03/youtubes-ad-problems-finallyblow-googles-face/ © Copyright The Omidyar Group 2017. All rights reserved. PAGE 20