As I wrote yesterday, worldviews motivate our actions. Social media companies’ actions are driven by profit – like any other business’s – and that means they want our attention (to sell to their advertisers).
Lots of attention = lots of profit.
The live-streaming of some of the recent attack in New Zealand led to an attention free-for-all, as people raced to share the content.
Blocking it isn’t easy (“harder than taking down copyrighted movies” I read recently), even for those companies who’d like to when their thirst for attention might actually be eclipsed by their need to ‘do the right thing’:
But the problem has been exacerbated by ‘legacy’ or ’traditional’ media companies who couldn’t resist trying to nab some of the attention that was up for grabs:
Daily Mirror and Daily Mail running edited parts of the Christchurch terrorist’s first-person video on their websites, pop-ups, ads around them.
Daily Mail’s shows him walking to mosque door and aiming to begin attack.
The Mirror’s shows him shooting at people. pic.twitter.com/aLJLQI8fB4
— Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) March 15, 2019
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