Facebook issues 7-point response to Netflix's 'Social Dilemma'; calls it 'sensationalism'

Ironically, many concerns were raised on social media by netizens after debut of Netflix's 90-minute documentary Social Dilemma about use of social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook. documentary painted somewhat a dire picture encompassing downsides of major corporations having easy access to personal data of millions of users around world.

documentary had garnered major attention from Netflix viewers which sparked a conversation around how social media has its harmful ways to manipulate its users. However, surprisingly Facebook has come forward and given an official response to claims made in Social Dilemma documentary through a blog post. Check out excerpts of it below:

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Facebook's response to Social Dilemma

Im courtesy - Facebook official website

Social media has always been under controversy over privacy concerns and issues surrounding handling of users' data. Social Dilemma documentary only fueled fire more which resulted in Facebook sending out an official response to documentary. blog post covered seven points namely - addiction, you are t product, algorithms, data, polarization, elections, and misinformation. 

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Facebook is an ads-supported platform, which means that selling ads allows us to offer everyone else ability to connect for free. This model allows small businesses and entrepreneurs to grow and compete with bigger brands by more easily finding new customers. But even when businesses purchase ads on Facebook, y don’t kw who you are. We provide advertisers with reports about kinds of people who are seeing ir ads and how ir ads are performing, but we don’t share information that personally identifies you unless you give us permission. We don't sell your information to anyone. You can always see ‘interests’ assigned to you in your ad preferences, and if you want, remove m.

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Here's what blog post read about claims made in documentary that Facebook allows misinformation to spread on ir platform -

idea that we allow misinformation to fester on our platform, or that we somehow benefit from this content, is wrong. Facebook is only major social media platform with a global network of more than 70 factchecking partners, who review content in different langus around world. Content identified as false by our fact-checking partners is labelled and down-ranked in News Feed. Misinformation that has potential to contribute to imminent violence, physical harm, and voter suppression is removed outright, including misinformation about COVID-19.

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